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One thing I can't believe

posted 12 years ago by Kammurabi
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*Spoiler, but not really*

Jean drops Maria Casares and falls in love with Agnes? I have nothing against Agnes, she's cute, but this takes some of the realism away for me. I understand it was disguised as a mutual parting and some people really don't realize what they have until it is gone...this certainly has happened to me multiple times. But Jean had time to find that out before marrying Agnes.

Sure Agnes has redeeming qualities and turns out to be a better human being than Helene, but in my opinion it never would have gotten that far to find these things out. I would be back to Maria within a week if she would take me back. It doesn't ring true to me. I choose to interpret it as a manipulation by Helene and some of her energy was transmitted into the set-up romance with Agnes and Jean was propelled by that until he started actually falling for Agnes' more humane qualities at the end.
It makes it more legitimate when I look at it that way.

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[–] PoppyTransfusion 9 years ago

What can't you believe exactly? Helene was a cruel woman with a cold heart. The expression of this would have been present in her relationship with Jean and he was ready to let her and this go. By contrast Agnes is authentic but hiding a sordid secret. She was a dancer at heart and this is what Jean probably tuned into. I suspect you are comparing the beauty of the actresses rather than reflecting on the characters and their personality in a relationship.

A bird sings and the mountain's silence deepens.

[–] mitchflorida 9 years ago

What an overrated movie. Frankly the plot makes no sense and is unbelievable. Pretentious, nasty French film.

[–] mitchflorida 9 years ago

What an overrated movie! Frankly the plot makes no sense and is unbelievable. Pretentious, nasty film. I have never met someone who would act in this way.

[–] Charlot47 8 years ago

The plot may not make sense to you and you may not have met such characters, but why do you think the story was meant to be realistic or the people real?

On the very simplest level, isn't it a conflict between the selfish cruel witch and the innocent maiden, whose pure love in the end wins the prince? The script writer, Jean Cocteau, used such archetypes in his own films like ''Orphée'' and ''La Belle et la Bête''.