Anybody as surprised as I was

I was only surprised she hadn't done it sooner. The kind of people who 'love' like this mother would stop at nothing to have their way. Their obsession with the object of their affection is not love; it's desperation.

This is the same woman who was willing to lie to her son; the person she claimed to love, telling him she was so ill they had to leave the country immediately. It is the same woman willing to ruin the life of the woman her son professes to love and wants to marry.

Unlike the women who behave similarly because they want to keep their son from marrying someone who doesn't really love them, the mother in this movie is out to hold on to her son at any cost. She claims a 'different' type would be suitable but the truth is she wants to keep her clutches in him. That means no woman would ever be good enough to take her place.

As she said in the movie, she didn't know if she'd use it against the girl or against herself; she just knew she had to do something. She couldn't go on if she could not have her son. She was at her wits end. He told her once and for all he was going to live his own life even if it meant throwing her out. She had reached the end of the line.

Killing the girl would eliminate her problem but she knew it would only make her son hate her more. She might have killed herself if she thought it would plunge him into guilt and devote himself to her memory from that moment on but it was clear that was not about to happen either.

When she finally seemed to give in at the end, I believe it was in realization that she'd lose him under every other alternative. Having the woman he loved in his life; especially when she came to the rescue, would put her back in her son's good graces. She may not have him to herself but she'd at least still have him in her life.


Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]