So let me get this straight...

I am sure there is more to it but since we only have a trailer to comment on...so for now, my comments will be based on the trailer...

First let me just get this out of the way, NO ONE deserves to lose a child, no matter what they did...I just have to wonder though if the writers of this movie put that in so the audience can have some sympathy for "the other woman"...because I (me specifically, not speaking for anyone else) would have none for her other than her losing her baby, which is tragic.

People fall in love, get married, fall out of love, divorce and meet someone new...unfortunately, it happens all the time. But I can't have sympathy for people who have affairs, who wants to have their cake and eat it too...to me, it's like they test the water, see how it feels and if it isn't what they want, they still have the wife/husband to fall back on.

My aunt's husband told her that he met someone that he was beginning to have feelings for, nothing has happened yet between them but he wanted to tell her the truth and didn't want to have an affair. She was of course hurt and upset and they got a divorce but to this day, they can be civil to each other because he was honest from the start.

I just don't understand why people can't do that, why they have to cheat and THEN fess up and think that it is ok. You want to be with someone else, fine...tell your spouse the truth BEFORE you have affair, get a divorce, than do what you like, especially when you add children into the mix.

In the trailer, when the husband said to Natalie Portman's character that he was married, it didn't seem like it mattered to her in the least. I am sure if the situation was reversed, she would have been so hurt.

I am going to watch the movie, see what's its all about, this was just my opinion based on the trailer.

RoswellFanForever

Take it for what it is. Do you want to feel bad? Feel bad. Do you want to be all self-rightgeous and judgmental. Be my guest. It's a movie. Stories like this and worse happen in real life everyday. Audiences are not "supposed" to feel bad or good. Why should all movies depict happy, rose colored worlds? Human beings screw up sometimes. People are nasty to each other sometimes. What's wrong with a movie showing that? There are movies about drug-addicts, about slave traders, about pedophiles, about serial killers, about mentally ill people, about dysfunctional families, about cold blooded murderers and yes, also about cheaters. Are those pleasant things to watch? No, they're not. But, as ugly as they might be, they are part of life and many people in the film industry choose to tell such stories.

I don't think they deserve to lose their baby for haven had an affair however you are correct, this movie seems to condone homewrecking wh0res and cheating scumbags which is why I will NOT be watching this film. And oh look, an ugly older man leaves his 'old' wife, the mother of his child for someone 20yrs younger, WHATEVER.

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It was an interesting take on the whole cheating scenario with the POV of the other woman, but wow I had little to no sympathy for Portman's character. The way she laid her eyes on him and was immediately trying to hook up with him despite being already married. Then the way she treated William and her father and freaking out half the time. Ugh. I couldn't stand Lisa Kudrow either. The only character I liked was William. I felt sorry for that kid being in such a dysfunctional household.

-Di

It is a film based on a novel. It is art and perhaps you could lighten up.