I saw this last night

Yeah, I wonder?? I just posted my own comments on the subject but I wasn't as subtle as you are here. I liked the story but I had a problem with the movie because I couldn't buy the so-called love affair.

What's interesting is it may have worked if the character was ambivalent about his relationship with a woman in general or that woman in particular. That would have worked for both the story and the actor. We'd understand his reluctance to kiss her and the lack of passion but he's supposed to have fallen suddenly, deeply, and completely in love with her. I heard the words but did not see it onscreen.

It's also interesting that she was playing him the whole time. She was sent to get information from him and he fell for it. He didn't even suspect her when she went to expose the old priest. He wasn't supposed to be clueless yet he was oblivious to all she'd done especially towards the end. He never got it; never doubted her; never questioned anything she did. That kind of behavior would indicate he was all in.

If he was that fully committed to being with her we should have also seen it in his actions. This is a priest who is, for the first time, in love with a woman. There is a war raging all around them. They are captured and threatened with death. All those things tend to bring out strong emotions in people which lead them to be more demonstrative of those emotions than they might ordinarily be. They don't act like they're on a Sunday picnic and have their entire lives ahead of them.


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