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The weirdness of Sylvia's love


So I'm re-watching Vincent Price's Twice Told Tales. Does anyone else find some of the dialogue in the first one to be completely insane.

These two characters raise the deceased finance of one of them from the dead. It turns out the woman was having an affair on her fiance with Vincent Price. After she's resurrected she talks to Vincent Price in private and mentions that he never really loved her.

And then we get a scene that pretty much plays out as follows.

"I loved you enough to poison you rather than see you with him!"
"Oh, my darling, I didn't realize you loved me enough to kill me. Let us run away together!"

WTF!? They're both insane. Even for 1960s horror movies this scene is strange. And somehow I doubt this is how it's written in the Nathaniel Hawthorne story.

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He never said he didn't love her, in fact he stated quite clearly he did love her just that he would not marry her.

I do agree it's odd someone would want to run off with a person who poisoned them, but stranger things have happened.

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He believes he loved her yes, but when you actually love someone you'd never be able to hurt them, let alone kill them out of spite or jealousy.

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You're joking right? People kill out of spite and jealousy all the time.

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Yes, people kill out of spite and jealousy all the time. I said that's not real love. Next time actually read what I write before trying to pick an argument with a stranger. My comment was in regard to what the characters (or perpetrators) of those sort of crimes view as love as opposed to actual love. NOTE the difference.

You could have had enough respect to actually read my post before replying and grasp that I was talking about "Warped interpretation of love vs. actual love."

Because you have to be a pretty messed up individual to think it's "Twu love" to poison someone if they marry someone else. No, if you truly love someone you could never bring yourself to harm them, no matter what. That's the difference between obsession / possession and actual love. THAT was my point. Not that it doesn't happen but that those who do those things, despite THINKING that they are in love... simply are not. Because only someone with a warped perception of reality could call that love.

The fact that you seem to be trying to justify calling that sort of thing love and can't grasp why it's not actual love is kind of scary.

I don't have patience for those who can't grasp such basic things are are too rude to think before they post.

Too long? Didn't read?

Obsession / passion mistaken as love = Leads to murder / murder suicides and similar "crimes of passion."

Actual love = NEVER does. When you REALLY love someone, truly love them, you could never, ever harm them. If you can't grasp this... Don't even try to have a relationship with anyone because you have a major problem.

Got it?!?

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Lol. You got some issues buddy. Love is a relative term, I'd like to know when you got appointed the judge on what is "true love" and what people do vs not do when they have "true love".

I wasn't trying to pick a fight, you were falsely accusing the film of having bad dialogue, I merely pointed out that what you were saying is not what the movie said, if I wasn't right you wouldn't be getting so upset.

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