Did it seem...
Inge was in love with Karl but Karl only was in it for the sex?
" Benny, you silly great fat article"
It didn't seem that way to me at all. Consider how he tried to console her. I perceived them both to be smitten with each other.
shareNo it wasn't for the sex only. Recall that on at least one occasion Karl apologized to Inge for failing to ummm 'rise to the occasion'.
As I watched I wondered what it would have been like for Inge if she had spent the last 30 years with Karl and then met Werner.
She repeatedly stated "I wasn't looking for this" but she wasn't being truthful to herself or Werner. She went well out of her way to "be in the neighborhood" when she first delivered Karl his pants.
Later she admitted that she was taken with Karl because he appeared to show interest when they first met. I doubt that that was the first time during the 30 year marriage to Werner that someone gave her the once-over - she wasn't looking for it then either but unless she followed up on those she managed to avoid what she wasn't looking for.
Also, she stated to her daughter that she had hoped to find true love again one day - but had given up hope of finding it. This doesn't strengthen her argument that she "didn't want this". If she truly wasn't looking for it she would have gone with Werner to see his son the Sunday that she appeared to make up her mind about moving Karl from a lovers tryst to a full blown romance.
Not blaming her for finding a thrill in a 'new love' - it gets the best of us. But I thought she might have admitted it rather than cop out.
I felt since she let the cat out the bag she should have split time between them. Werner did not need her to be passionate with him, he just needed her. Just what was he to do without her. To me even though she loved Carl she could have still been with him and not abandoned Werner as he deserved more than that.
The odd thing that will be forgotten in this movie, is yes, Karl got her free and clear physically but mentally he lost big time as he will know spend his days helping her with grief that will not heel anytime soon and at there age That may be forever.
Inge wanted life, and only Karl was able to give it to her. Werner was more focused on his preferences. From the moment Inge considered her living conditions as "being in the dump" the time bomb under their marriage was set. And it eventually blew up. Could it not blow up? Yes, if someone as bright, as Karl would not show up. But he did.
And people want to be young and have fresh emotions and fillings at all ages, as long as they are sane.
I don't think many have an issue with her and Karl but she should have shared time with her husband as she never seemed to understand what he was going through.
It was about her and her only, she only wanted to be honest with him after there was no way out. She played the he deserves to know card because it gave her an out. I could get behind her and Karl but i could not understand why he all of a sudden even to her own daughter became someone who at his age deserved to be without even seeing her. There was no plan B.