Film Club: Boudu as a Christ figure (spoilers)
I was wondering whether Boudu could be seen as a Christ figure. He makes Anne-Marie an honorable woman and so rich that she will never have to serve on anybody again. He introduces Mrs Lestingois to pleasures she did not know or had forgotten and returns her husband to her. And he helps Mr Lestingois to live an honest life.
And once Boudu has helped everyone, he disappears, maybe off to help other people. It is interesting that the scarecrow he picks up and undresses in the end is in fact a cross and the cross is even emphasised in the film, therefore maybe linking it to the story of Christ.
Boudu may have been saved from drowning but it was Boudu who saved the main characters in the film.
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