Julie Brecht is a main character in the 2007 slasher film Disturbia. She is the mother of Kale Brecht. She adopts a strict personality when Kale is placed under arrest for the entire summer after assaulting his Spanish teacher who made an insensitive comment about his deceased father. She is portrayed by Carol Anne-Moss.
What Makes Her a Scrappy?[]
- Her strict personality is simply from the stress of having to raise Kale on her own after the death of her husband and wanting the best for her son as all parents do. However, her actions throughout most of the film make her an overall unsympathetic character.
- She constantly and repeatedly antagonizes Kale for no reason when he is just as upset about the death of his father as she is.
- She punishes him for the heck of it, such as cancelling his media subscriptions and cutting the cord to his television, which causes him to grow bored and start spying on his neighbors.
- She blames him for his father's death, even though the incident was entirely out of his control. Considering the way she treats Kale, it's no wonder her son won't listen to her.
- She shows no empathy towards Kale for the trauma that losing his father has caused him, and only focuses on teaching him a hard lesson about assaulting his teacher, which doesn't work.
- She trusts the serial killer Robert Turner next door too easily and refuses to believe Kale when he says that Turner is a murderer despite the obvious hints and suspicions.
- She even goes over to Turner's house to convince him not to press charges for breaking into his house. This proves to be her undoing as once she turns her back, Turner knocks her unconscious and imprisons her in his basement where he keeps the bodies of his victims.
- She is the most insufferably dumb character in the film for the above-mentioned reason.
- She is nothing more than a plot device who exists to keep the story going. The only time she makes herself useful is when she is bound and gagged, as she stabs Turner in the leg with a crowbar, which gives Kale enough time to kill him with gardening shears.
- Her behavior throughout the film makes her changing for the better in the end feel completely unearned.
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