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mark and isolde wedding night


i understand on the 1st night she must be really sad about the wedding but on the other night she also cry again..
besides sadness and betrayed, does any of you have any opinion?
those scenes really disturbing for me

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Why would having to sleep with a man she doesn't love only make her cry the first time? I don't think that's the kind of thing you get used to or indifferent to like that.

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She probably just felt really guilty. She knew she was betraying Mark by being in love with Tristan, yet Tristan was killing himself slowly because she couldn't be with HIM. I felt bad for her.

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Those scenes (especially the wedding night scene) made me want to vomit, gouge out my eyes and scrub my brain out with bleach.How horrible to see a woman in such an awful situation, and in such graphic detail. I was desperate for Isolde to turn round and tell Marke she's not having sex with him, but of course that wouldn't happen. Thank you lavendernovella, it's good to hear that someone else feels the same about these scenes - they really were disturbing.

About her feelings - afraid I can only think of sadness and betrayal, nothing else. Sorry.

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I too felt really horrible for her in those scenes. In those days, though, women were brought up to believe that they really had no choice but to consummate their marriages, and fulfill their "wifely" duties; regardless of whether they were in love or not. Anyhow, I would cry too if I had to give up James Franco...lol.

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It is also heart breaking because Marke is a good man.

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Graphic detail? Wow you need to see more movies. You see more graphic details in the daily news...
If you would paid attention you would have seen that Marke was being really kind. I think especially in those times you would have been really lucky to marry a man like Marke, actually in these times as well.

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Agreed, that girl is overly sensitive to say the least. Those scenes were far from being graphic, and Marke was actually a very kind man. Most men in the dark ages would have simply assaulted a woman.

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Graphic detail? Did you watch a different version than I did? These were def. PG-13 "scenes".

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Alot of the crying probably had to do with guilt. Had it not been for Tristan, Isolde could indeed have fallen in love with Marke. She even tells Tristan "I cannot hate him." If she and Tristan had never met, she would have counted herself lucky to be married to a kind and handsome man in those days. Think of the alternative - the brute that ended up getting killed earlier in the movie.







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Maybe she really did love Mark in her own way. Maybe she was unhappy in having to choose between a man who she wanted and loved or A king she also loved whom she did not want to disappoint. She loved both of them but wanted to be with Tristan.

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Mark was a good man. He tried hard to please her. She still loved Tristan.

Putting that aside, I think she *enjoyed* the physical love that these two within their own bedroom had given to each other.She knew he was a good man, and he was artful with his love making as well.. She was FORCED to being with a man who was a great person/man, however she loved another msn.

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Those scenes were sad to watch mostly because it was obvious how much she didn't want to be having sex with him.

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