Honestly, this may be my least favorite movie we have watched throughout this course so far. I was very confused about multiple aspects throughout the film. Firstly, I think that the directing was confusing; it was hard for me to follow when the movie would switch between the present day and flashbacks, and I was confused about who some of the characters were as the movie progressed, specifically his children as they were growing up. Secondly, the actions of the characters confused me for the majority of the film. I didn’t understand the reasons for the main character’s infidelity to his wife. In one scene he is hugging her and telling her that he loves her, but in the next, he meets another woman at a hotel. I was also confused by the scene where he was in a room with another woman and his wife walked in to say hello. I was shocked when she shook the other woman’s hand, and when her husband asked if she was mad, she said no and walked away. The class discussion cleared that up for me slightly when we determined that the image of his wife entering the room was a projection of his subconscious caused by his feelings of guilt. I don’t think that he ever really seemed to feel guilt or regret about cheating on his wife, except for the few scenes where she was crying. But I feel like if she hadn’t gotten upset, he would have just continued to meet other women with no remorse for his wife. Another aspect of this movie that confused me was the way that his wife handled the cheating situation. She continued to stay with him and preserve her marriage even though we think that she was aware of her husband's disloyalty. This made me wonder if it was normal for Italian women, when their husbands cheat on them, to try to work through it and make the marriage work. In America, I feel like once one partner cheats on the other, the relationship is immediately over. American wives leave their cheating husbands quickly, but it seems like if this couple in the film was representing a stereotypical cheating situation in Italy, then Italian women are much more forgiving in those situations.
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