He was excited about the restaurant and she gave up on him so quick cause of a new crush.
shareHe never even really listened to a thing she was saying. What happened to Sophie is a natural (and sad) outcome of an ignored/neglected gf/wife. If Sophie broke up with him, it was his own fault. Nothing to blame on Sophie or Charlie.
shareOne reason why I don’t like this movie is that all the three major young characters were unlikable. The only thing I have against Victor is not his concentration in his work, but rather that he was rather unperceptive of Sophie’s unhappiness in being often left alone. At the end he was probably better when Sophie left him for some even bigger jerk. Victor did nothing wrong, but he failed to satisfy Sophie’s expectations of him – namely that he was supposed to me with her “all the time”, despite the fact that he was starting a new business and the so-called “pre-honeymoon” was actually a business trip.
I find Charlie to be a far more disagreeable person than Victor. He was so rude and unpleasant to Sophie when they first met. He blamed her for starting all the trouble and that in a way was disrespectful to his grandmother too. His behavior was little short of shameful. He obviously had a sense of superiority, and his arrogant manners and speech – with all those stilted lines and fake accent – gave the impression that he belonged to British aristocracy – which he obviously didn’t. After one particularly insulting remark on Sophie, he was in effect ordered by his grandmother to apologize. He did so most reluctantly. However, the scriptwriter dictated that Sophie should fall in love with him, and just a few moments later they started kissing – and we are supposed to believe that it was true romantic love.
Sophie was far too self-absorbed and clingy. As posters here have pointed out, she was totally unsupportive of Victor and had no interest in what he did. However, she placed the blame totally on his side. Also, are there others here who think that she dumped Victor rather too easily? A few words and she walked away and the relationship was over? Their last scene together was very revealing. She told Victor that their relationship did not work because he was too concentrated in his work, and Victor protested that he had always been like that. Indeed, how did she fall in love with him in the first place? In the movie, her weak excuse was that she “had changed”. Perhaps she had to be pampered all the time and now she thought she had found someone who had a lot of free time. If you marry some girl like Sophie and have to take two jobs as the breadwinner and work yourself almost to death, the only thing she’d notice about you is that you don’t spend much time with the “family”. Meanwhile, she would take some nonpaying job like writing letters to Juliet, Romeo, and King Lear, whatever. So yes, in a way I feel a little sorry for Victor, but he is better off without Sophie. She could only marry someone who is rich, doesn’t have to work and could be with her every minute, or otherwise the marriage could not last long. I give Charlie and Sophie five years at most – very likely less.
This was a silly film with an absurd plot, but it was obvious from minute one that those two were not getting married. NOBODY takes a beautiful Tuscan pre-wedding honeymoon and then completely ignores the spouse to be. If he behaved in that way, he was asking for it.
shareHe was excited about the restaurant and she gave up on him so quick cause of a new crush.
He never really played the character in a way that suggested he liked her all that much.
I'm sure when the actor got the script it read that his character is a bit self-absorbed, a lot distracted by his business venture, but supposed to be in love with this woman.
I think he played up the former two way more than the latter, so you never really felt that he cared all that much about her, much less loved her.
So no, really don't feel sorry for him. I'm sure he moved on pretty quickly.