I'm a guy, and I remember watching 'The Notebook', and 'Cousins' where there's infidelity but the main characters are caught in very difficult situations where you can pretty much empathize and give them a free pass on infidelity.
However, this movie is way too sugarcoated when it comes to infidelity.
Maybe unfaithful since she loved her husband very much and her husband did paid her the attention she needed and yet she cheated out of lust and people still felt sympathy for her.
Calm your tits. This movie has complex characters not heroes & villains.
& I have no idea why you had to lead with "I'm a guy"
Calm your titsI must remember to use your line sometime! share
Call it "complex" characterization all you want, but what it is at the end of the day is a woman cheating on her husband for a totally ridiculous and irresponsible reason. And he doesn't even seem to be a bad guy. Which makes it worse.
And this is painted as some sort of romantic movie by women.
If the gender roles were reversed I doubt women would be passing off the cheating husband as being just a "complex" character who is trying to find himself.
Watched this movie many times and today after a long while. This movie goes into all the reasons she cheated. Back in the 60's divorce was frowned upon not like today when everyone does it and thinks nothing of it. They talked about dreams and when you've been in a marriage after many many years and you lose some of those what you call "sparks" someone intriguing like Kinkaid makes you feel like some if those dreams can come true even if just for four days. As a woman who was married for over 20 years I can tell you not that it is necessarily romantic it's that feeling special feeling that's what this is about.
shareMovies often depict males cheating for sex and women being unfaithful for emotional reasons. Any and all can be true in real life but film is stereotypical.
As far as other movies that sugarcoat infidelity, The Prince of Tides matches those criteria.
"The end of the shoelace is called the...IT DOESN'T MATTER!"
"Unfaithful" the woman cheats because... well, there really isn't a reason for it. She just does.
It does seem when women cheat there is some really good reason for it but when men do it, it's because they are pigs.
It’s not so black and white. On one hand, there is some glorification of adultery. The two protagonists have chemistry, they are portrayed favorably, the ending (with the ashes) seems to promote the correctness of their relationship.
But at the same time — Francesca doesn’t leave with him, right? Eastwood offers to take her, but she pointedly chooses to stay with her family, including her husband. She therefore chooses marriage over adultery. She also exhibits love towards that husband, the way she lied down in bed next to him as he died. Also, the two siblings, in reaction to Francesca’s story, resolve to strengthen their marriages.
So there is a clear promotion of marriage in the movie too. It’s not a simple promotion of adultery.