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One Incongruity ( SPOILER)


When Anna and Jacob meet up outdoors in the park-like setting to continue exploring their relationship, she seems to be enjoying his dark side: teasing him about his indulgences in drinking, cheating, etc.

And yet when her new husband cheats on her, Anna turns to Jacob up for comfort. While part of me understands it and totally appreciates how deeply this bonded them I also think Anna should have expressed some outrage toward him at that point for having cheated on her mother with her mother's friend! Surely now she can empathize with her mother and what she went through and how anguishing it is.

And this would have supplied her with a convenient outlet for all her frustration and anger re: her puerile husband, something that Jacob should have been able to handle well. In fact this could have given him an opportunity to express contrition for his youthful folly & show how far he had evolved emotionally over the past two decades.

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I wondered about that myself, Anna's feelings that is. But, only briefly, because I was more intrigued by the effect it must have had on Jacob. Seeing how distressed Anna was. Did he realize that this was how Helene must have been emotionally after his betrayal?


"Arguing with idiots is like trying to play chess with a pigeon..."

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Of course ~ That's the half of it ~ and with all the director's proclivity for close-ups of eyes to express repressed interiority, here was a great opportunity

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