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Betta Back In The Closet??? (SPOILER)

posted 14 years ago by chuck-526
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At the funeral, Betta is escorted by her old boyfriend Gregorio! Is this just temporary for the funeral, or has she decided to leave her lesbian creds in London?

(This goes by quickly enough I wasn't sure when I first saw it at the theater. Now with the DVD, being able to freeze-frame and to directly compare scenes that are normally an hour and a half apart, I'm sure. If facial features and light curly hair aren't enough to definitively identify a character, the two prominent moles on the left side of his face are:-)

[–] mathmaniac 13 years ago

Betta was at a funeral. This prompted her to realize life is short. She decided to go hetero.

[–] palefire-1 13 years ago

Seems to me, if she realized life was so short, she'd want to follow her heart instead of lie to herself.

[–] raymond-bille 9 years ago

"Seems to me, if she realized life was so short, she'd want to follow her heart instead of lie to herself."

Exactly! Which is basically what she was doing anyway. Like others have said, he came to support her as a friend and nothing more. He knows she's gay and therefore there was obviously no romantic hints between them. And you never see them anyway because of course there are none. She only likes the ladies.

[–] raymond-bille 9 years ago

Um.... mathmaniac, that made absolutely no sense at all. First of all homosexuality is NOT a "choice/lifestyle" you are BORN that way, hardwired that way and no matter what you cannot change that. So one can't just "decide" to be a sexual orientation, you just are! Second, if one realizes that "life is too short" then logically that would make more sense to come out of the closet and be your TRUE self. So if one is gay, then obviously realizing life is too short would make them realize that they shouldn't care what others think of them, and therefore you should just live your life the way you know you are suppose to, because it's who you are! And as others have said, there was NOTHING romantic going on between them in any way. He only came to the funeral to support her because they are FRIENDS. Nothing more. She is gay and therefore only likes women.

[–] chuck-526 13 years ago

After watching it a couple more times, I have a reply to my own question. Gregorio was indeed at the funeral, but he was *not* escorting Betta. They never talk and don't stand near each other. Gregorio was apparently at the funeral as a close friend of Edo (at the very beginning someone guesses [incorrectly, as it turns out] that the person that beat Edo in the race was Gregorio).

[–] palefire-1 13 years ago

Interesting.

[–] paulfuller-3 10 years ago

I actually noticed this from the other angle, questioning why Betta's girlfriend wasn't there. Then I remembered that, with respect to her father, Betta was still in the closet.

Not sure how Gregorio and Edo being in a race together would have been any evidence that they were close friends. I'd think it more likely that Gregorio and Betta were together long enough that he considered himself a "friend of the family". It seems even more likely that he was just deluding himself about Betta wanting him to be there, as in the earlier scene at the airport.

[–] raymond-bille 9 years ago

"It seems even more likely that he was just deluding himself about Betta wanting him to be there, as in the earlier scene at the airport."

Possibly, I mean in the back of his mind he knows she's gay and wants to respect that, knowing that she truly only likes ladies. But maybe subconsciously he still has feelings for her.....

[–] raymond-bille 9 years ago

chuck-526, uh no. She is still a lesbian. And she will ALWAYS be gay. Being a homosexual is something you are born as, and it's not something to "be in one place and something else in another." As other people have said on here, they only came as friends, he was still a close friend of her's and he only wanted to support her. Nothing wrong with that! And there is absolutely NO hint of any romance between them. She only likes women.

[–] chuck-526 9 years ago

I'm puzzled.

I thought I just asked a simple question. How can my question be interpreted as saying anything (including that Betta was no longer gay)? How can my question be interpreted as suggesting something was "wrong"? And how can my question be interpreted as suggesting some kind of romance?

Most centrally, how can my asking about how she presented be interpreted as instead something about how she really was? It seems to me perfectly straightforward for her to be gay in both places, yet arrange to continue to be "in the closet" in Italy - is that not right?

[–] jozielee 8 years ago

At the airport Georgio could see that Betta had changed - hair and clothes. And why she was no longer interested in a romance with him - she never accepted his flowers at the airport.

Later, at the funeral, he was there as a friend of the family. Nothing more. I believe Betta said something to her mom in that regard.