Ectasy is like a soft-core quasiporno combined with an Obsession commercial combined with a National Geographic documentary. And I did not understand the ending. Machinery, trains, wheat sheaves wafting in the breeze, men working, Eva with a baby. What?
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It's my understanding that the ending was tacked on for American audiences to perk things up a bit. The men working, etc. was I believe a nod to Communist workers.
Whadda ya hear, whadda ya say!
I don't really know what the director was trying to achieve with the montage of the workers near the end and it certainly seemed odd at the time I was watching, but upon reflection I think the historical context of this film might be a clue. In 1933 Germany, like the rest of the world, was in the midst of the Great Depression. Also, 1933 was the year Hitler became the German Chancellor. So, one guess is that the "ode to labor" (as one reviewer put it) scene was meant to convey a message of hope that life for Eva and for the rest of Germany would soon return to good times where people had what they needed most --- a job and a chance at happiness. That year Hitler came to power promising, of course, a New Germany full of happy and industrious "volk" such as those portrayed, perhaps coincidentally, in that otherwise odd segment of the film. And, yes, Hedy Lamarr just might be the most beautiful woman ever to appear in film, though, at age 19, I thik that her full blossoming was yet to come.
I didn't understand if Eva really had a baby or if that guy was just wishing they had a baby, were together, etc.
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