what a whore...

excellent post

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I agree, there is a lot wrong with many Americans, particularly in their attitudes toward women. Misguided à la the husband's conceptions.

First of all, there was sexual tension built up throughout the movie, and as the husband brought along the student for his own amusement, any hopes of having sex on the trip were foiled (of course, out of courtesy to their guest), and they had to go along with a stranger on the boat, wrecking what probably was meant to be a romantic getaway. So there's tension there that does not get spoken of. "Why did you bring him along?" the wife asks, getting no answer.

And to the misogynists in this thread, the husband's jab "Without me, you'd be a whore!" did not fuel her behavior? She should just sit around and abide her husband calling her a whore? The husband brought along the student. Suddenly, because she wears the garments she brought along for the trip, she becomes a whore? Poor, clouded judgment on the husband's part. She merely fulfilled his paranoid censure. Think before you post.

"We cure NOTHING! We heal NOTHING!"
-George C. Scott

What is wrong with people like you that try to justify cheating? What she did was much worse than anything he did to her. He said something out of anger to her when he was panicking about the kid dying. Because of that, she can throw away their marital vows and have sex with a stranger who she knows is no better than her husband if not worse? It's not surprising to see Polanski make this kind of statement given his own questionable morals. It has nothing to do with being American, but just basic right and wrong.