Just like my grandmother in the 50's

I live in Chile and my family has been here for various generations. Including my grandmother. I am and she was (is), bourgouise. The places in the film are the exact places I know, I know it's france, but you wouldn't be able to tell the difference with the "upper" monetary class in Chile. From the houses, to the clothes to the furniture, to the costumes - it's so much the same as my grandmother it's ridiculous.

Second simile is the morals. I think Malle made the film as a pamphletary message to all those bored bourgouis women, telling them to cut the crap and get out, whatever the cost.

I haven't spoken to my grandmother if she saw the film at the time, but I can tell you, she did the same: Escaped with another dude. And I can tell you, to follow suit to what the movie throws itself into - it wasn't pretty.

I did not live her life, but from all i've gathered, this escape was harsh, but maybe, necessary. In a way, I feel that whole generation was f u c k ed by the stale and horrified-of-life system, so perpetuated in that life style; and the new, very fast changes of the 20th century. I don't know, I may be lacking historical spirit to compare to other centuries, and even to themselves (maybe some where happy?) but what I see, it was mostly a bad generation to be born in - your children were the hippies, I mean, come on!

So, even though the movie may seem a bit on the false side, you know, so fast - it is true that in a way it's a movie which has to pack the punch in a short time, AND maybe this girl was like a child, maybe it was her first time to fall in love that way. The guy, I don't know about. But the point is - it's a film, not life - though it's definately and closely intertwined... even with a distant country like Chile! (or not so distant culturally)

Cheers!