Does anybody else notice how shallow these people were displayed in the movie?
Their love seems to be purely based on appearance. Like how Marbel is attracted by the "bad boys" quality of Goring and completely ignores all others which can prove to be a disaster to their marriage.
And when Lady Chiltern is willing to throw away her marriage because his husband failed to be ideal in a way.
Any other examples people want to list here? Thanks.
Thanks for these obeservations. I think you have a point. Let's not forget the context though. These are all aristocrats, to whom appearances and marrying someone for the right political reasons is as essential as say getting to know them as companions and intimates. Also, Victorian love was very much about ideals and platonic love, as opposed to say, romantic and passionate love.
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Which, of course, meant constant infidelity, since everyone wants romantic love.
Things like this are why people like the downstairs folks from Upstairs, Downstairs. They actually lived. (well, more freely)
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Yoiks I think you couldn't be more wrong. While Lord Goring loves to use clever words to pretend he is a cad, as we see through his actions he is a true friend, and capable of self-sacrifice that is magnificent. That is why Mabel tells him she never told him before that she adored him, because he wouldn't have believed it, he was trying so hard to appear unlovable. But she saw through him and knew all along what a great person he was, but he wouldn't have believed it until after he was forced to expose his true noble, and self-deprecatingly humble nature.
Pay attention and watch it again!
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Regarding the shallowness of the characters... Oscar Wilde's plays were all about making fun of "society"...hypocrisy and all. That's why they were so popular. He showed on stage what nobody would talk about in real life.
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