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'They are the same' -- Great scene

posted 14 years ago by Janatay
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It was the scene where Jean and Madeleine first get into a lift.

He looks at her two pink bags and says "Hah.. They are the same"

She looks at him, and corrects him "You mean that they have the same color?"

I think that scene sort of epitomized the whole movie.

The two bags were of the same color, but they were of essentially different style/size. Same with the couples in the movie. Irène and her men, Jean and Madeleine dressed nicely and lived high-class lives, but underneath they were essentially different.

Loved that subtle symbolism.

[–] jlent 14 years ago

I think you might have misread the scene.
It looked to me that Jean instinctively reacted to order to take her bags, realized his mistake, put them down, got on the lift, where, to mask his emabarrasment, he told the woman he had the same kind of bags.
The woman then asked, incredulously, "the same color?" indicating she did not believe a man would have pink bags.

[–] guaili 14 years ago

That's exactly how the scene went.

[–] dakky68 11 years ago

I agree that this is exactly what the scene was about and nothing more complex than that. And it was just a way to introduce her character and show her a bit of his vulnerability and lack of class, as such, compared to the types of people she was probably surrounded by usually.