Sandra Hüller's "You Are Not A Victim" Anatomy Of A Fall Monologue

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Sandra Hüller's "You Are Not A Victim" Anatomy of a Fall Monologue refers to a scene from the 2023 film Anatomy of a Fall in which actress Sandra Hüller's character, Sandra Voyter, yells at her husband Samuel Maleski in an argument for an extended monologue. The scene went viral on TikTok in early 2024, leading to praise of the performance and recreations of the monologue on the app.

Origin

In the 2023 film Anatomy of a Fall, Sandra Voyter is on trial for the suspected murder of her husband. In a flashback, Sandra and Samuel are in an argument, which leads Sandra to criticize her husband in an extended monologue. The monologue reads:

You complain about the life that you chose! You’re not a victim! Not at all! Your generosity conceals something dirtier and meaner. You’re incapable of facing your ambitions, and you resent me for it. But I’m not the one who put you where you are. I have nothing to do with it! You’re not sacrificing yourself, as you say. You choose to sit on the sidelines because you’re afraid! Because your pride makes your head explode before you can even come up with a little germ of an idea! And now you wake up and you’re forty, and you need someone to blame. And you’re the one to blame! You’re petrified by your own fucking standards and your fear of failure. This is the truth!

On January 15th, 2024, TikTok account the_goodfilms^[1] isolated the clip and posted it to the app, gaining over 2.4 million views and 208,000 likes on the platform in one month (shown below).

Spread

Over the following month, as the clip spread on TikTok, Hüller's monologue attracted praise from others on the app. On February 1st, 2024, user @negantheestallion^[2] joked it made a similar scene in Marriage Story "obsolete," gaining over 54,000 likes in two weeks (shown below, left).

Others took to lipsyncing the monologue. For example, on January 28th, user @justsammorris^[3] lipsynced to the monologue, gaining over 56,000 likes in two weeks (shown below, right).

Others used it in skits on the platform. For example, on January 31st, user @nicoloperelli joked about it by pretending it was his ancestors scolding him, gaining 90 likes in two weeks (shown below, left). On February 2nd, user @Dania posted a skit joking the monologue's content was her brain scolding her for not sleeping, gaining over 60 likes in ten days (shown below, right).

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