Perfidia One Battle After Another- Therapeutic Perspective & Analysis Apologies if this isn’t allowed, has been said before or is obvious, and I’m not stating my take is the end all be all- I just wanted a place to share my thoughts. I am in grad school to be a therapist, and there is this concept originally in family therapy adapted to racial trauma by the brilliant Ken Hardy, called destructive entitlement. In the context of racial trauma it basically means that when someone has been consistently dehumanized or marginalized, they sometimes have an overcompensatory reaction in which they act as though they ”own the right to have their needs met… when one is maligned by the invisible wound of internalized devaluatuon, there is a sense of momentary empowerment and self-actualization that occurs with expressions of destructively entireoed self righteous anger”(Racial Trauma, Ken Hardy). The movie is a meditation on power, and Perfidia encapsulates this destructive entitlement.…