why call it 'indiscreet'?
why is the movie titled "indiscreet", anyone? Is it because somehow the story involves relationship with a married man?
Basically yes. Like te concept of a mistress and her man, especially when there both important people, well you'd want to be discreet with that relationship. Instead they choose to be together, he takes an apartment right below her, he's seen everywhere with her. Etc.
So yeah the were ring indiscreet , but then the joke is that he's not married right! So it's an ironic title too.
That and the fact that she's entertaining a man in her home without a chaperone. When he calls and she suggests he come up for a nightcap, he says no so the operator won't know and learn about their scandalous behavior. He takes the stairs so the elevator operator won't find out. Then her sister insists on staying with her when she finds out he is actually coming up. How ridiculous that a 40+ year old woman needs a chaperone. ugh
The people you idolize wouldn't like you.
"Ridiculous?" It was a different time, when although there was probably just as much funny business going on, the naughty behavior was not done openly. What is that saying about hypocrisy being the "tribute that virtue pays to vice?"
shareAn actress who was in the public eye would not want people knowing she was having a liaison with a married man (as she believes Grant is). things like that still mattered in those days. Remember that some years earlier, Bergman's real life hollywood career had been damaged by her having such an affair. adultery was still a serious matter in the 50s.
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