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We Was Robbed!---Spoilers

posted 16 years ago by Rayvyn
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Ok it was a good movie. I liked the underlying sexual tension between Protee and Aimee. But I would have loved to see a more of a payoff. But as it is, what I get from it is that Protee really loved the family and especially the little girl. He had too much respect for them to go ahead and do the do with Aimee. He figured it would probably break up the family. Though I felt cheated it was a really good film and I watched it from beginning to end, that's something I rarely do with a movie even less for a movie with subtitles.

[–] dunkleyc 16 years ago

I think it was a good movie too although I did feel a little unfulfilled at the end :( but after reading someone's synopsis on here i feel better about it -- the 3 workers at the end and the downpour and raincoats and the significance of all that. i love the scene where Portee rejects Aimee, it was so powerful because you kinda want them to have this moment together because it's obvious they love each other and need each other but the fact that he rejects her shows his incredible strength and it is clear for the first time that even though he is the servant he has this authority over her. He emerges as this moral respectable dignified man and i loved that!

[–] fantasyinme 16 years ago

I think that Protee was merely trying to be her friend, in the absence of the Father, and there was no sexual tension between them, but there was a fondness being developed. Aimee was a weak women, not able to communicate her feelings, and she was trapped in a world where women seemed to be submissive to men. In the end, Protee I believe was disgusted with the whole scene, question is, did aimee hear the scufflue between Protee and Luc? When he stood her up on her feet, to me it idicated that she needed to quit whimpering about, and take a stand rather than to be submissive to her husband, and run the house. She ultimately loved him for his character. She tried to resist the urge, but she was bombarded on all sides; everyone else could see that she really liked her "boy" and the girl with the red shorts even said that she had a good looking boy, and Luc was jealous, possibly because he was already hiding an affair with the other lady. I loved this movie and watch it every few days. Each time I get something new from it.

[–] inthepalemoonlight 15 years ago

I think that Protee was merely trying to be her friend, in the absence of the Father, and there was no sexual tension between them, but there was a fondness being developed.

I think you're way off. When the film first came out all the critics brought up the obvious sexual attarction betwee the two characters. And director Claire Denise didn't deny that that was her intent.

[–] squallpendragon 15 years ago

I think the racial tension was quite a bit more prevalent in his decision to not 'do the do' with Aimee.

[–] sillyhat 14 years ago

The other thing to keep in mind is that Protée is engaged. He has to spend what seems to be a very long time away from his fiancée, but he stays true to her to the end.

[–] mnoe 13 years ago

He's engaged?

The only mention made of his "fiancee" that I noticed is when he fibs to the little girl about the letter he's been dictating. As it is read back to him in front of us (but out of hearing of the child), we know that it is really a letter to his parents.

The little girl is acting bossy and nosy ("Hurry up! We have to leave now!" and "Who were you writing?"), perhaps out of jealousy since she loves Protée so much and he is basically her only friend. She is miffed that he has a life separate from her. Sometimes children act in the same imperious and possessive way about their parents.

But I believe the viewer is meant to understand that she has earned the mocking of the village children who follow her chanting her own haughty line about leaving, and the evasive answer of Protée as well, who really shouldn't have every private moment "owned" by the child or the family.

By the way, the very next scene is the one in which Protée sweetly submits to France feeding him part of her dinner as if he is a doll or a baby, which is another scene with layers upon layers. (A film student could write a whole paper about the many meanings in each scene of different characters presenting food to each other. Starting with the ant sandwich picnic.)

last 2 dvds: Flesh and the Devil (1926) & 'Sciuscià' (Ragazzi) (1946)

[–] Victover 11 years ago

Just to let you know that by not being able to read you're missing a lot of the best cinema of the world: most of it is outside of the USA.

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