How does she know
that Ariane has lesbian tendencies? I wouldn't have guessed that of her, but it was her main manipulation tool.
In this world you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.For years I was smart.I recommend pleasant
I didn't get the impression that she was prone to lesbian tendencies but rather Melanie subtly seduced a fragile woman, a woman who's husband was away from home quite often, and although they seem to have a loving relationship she is probably lonely.
And then along comes Melanie, an attractive young girl who not only knows how to read music but who can also play the piano and turns out to be an excellent pageturner giving Ariane a newfound confidence which helps her through the first concert.
There are several brilliantly thought out steps to the seduction:
Firstly gives Ariane confidence, which makes her dependant on her.
Secondly she goes to find her before the start of the concert and takes her hand, this makes Ariane think that she cares for her. Then the roles are reversed, Melanie goes off to the same place Ariane was and Ariane comes for her, this shows Melanie that she cares for her, then she kisses her tenderly nearer to the mouth than the cheek - hesitant affection.
All the while she's getting close to Tristan, and parents love it when people get on with and show an interest in their children. This leads to the incident where Melanie is reaching to take hold of Ariane's hand, which is interrupted by Tristan. This is an excitingly dangerous incident, the excitement of which is not lost on Ariane.
Then the scene with the cellist could be seen as a man being left with a younger attractive woman, his wife asks what he's getting up to up there, which she probably has a good idea of. Ariane could take the so called accident, which both his wife and Ariane most likely suspect as not being so as Melanie rejecting his advances out of some kind of loyalty to her, but I am probably reading too much into this scene as those two characters are not really that well developed (I think the typical hollywood thing to have done here was have the two women discuss a previous affair the man had, or his tendency to flirt with younger woman).
Then we have the changing room scene, Melanie obviously lets Ariane see her getting changed, and we see her taking an interest the naked Melanie, who she has already seen in a bikini (although I may actually have the movie timeline wrong here, I have a nagging suspicion the bikini scene happend later).
Then Melanie's male friend appearing and her talking to him in a friendly way may make Ariane jealous which would heighten her feelings for the young girl.
And then at the second concert Melanie abandons Ariane and she is forced to find a replacement pageturner, Melanie knows that this will more than likely affect Ariane's performance. But Ariane is not angry at her, she probably puts it down to her being nervous and thereforce can identify with her, reminding her of herself, a person who she obviously thinks of highly. Then in the car Melanie doesn't try to make any excuses, she just says sorry and places her hand on Ariane's, another sign of affection for her, which by kissing Melanie's hand she returns.
Then inadvertantly Ariane's violinist friend questions her about what is wrong with her, and quickly guesses that it may have something to do with Melanie, which Ariane confirms with concerns over her husband finding out, which again is an excitingly dangerous situation as she would stand to lose everything.
Then finally we have Melanie asking for an autograph, which Ariane reads as her wanting a photograph of the woman she loves whom she may not see again, atleast until next November.
And now that I have analysed it like that it makes me realise just what brilliant a job the writer has done, too often in television and movies you'll see women easily seducing and falling in love with other women, but here we see it as much slower process.
Anyway, that's just my take on it, I could be completely wrong. And well done for reading all of that text - if any of you have :P
Thank you I read it ! I am trying to find out what kind of person was Melanie ?
shareI don't think she moved into her house as a revenge mechanism. I think she was surprised to see her again. I also think she had a certain degree of attraction to her. When she rubbed the cream on her face, she closed her eyes. When you dislike someone and they touch you, your knee-jerk reaction is going to be to tense up - not to close your eyes.
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