Does anyone else think that Nora was kind of a neglectful wife in this movie? She welcomes this guy who obviously has feelings for her, goes out on dates alone with him, and when the husband is finally introduced to this guy, he is completely ignored in the conversation to the point that she doesn't even look at him anymore.
If I were that husband, I would start thinking about divorce right away
The movie was great. Touching.
But in real life, she was extremely disrespectful. The husband was at the verge of a nervous breakdown, and she continued to go on meet cutes with an old flame who travelled the world specifically to wreck her marriage. Multiple dates, then the final insult to her husband was taking him on the last "date", completely ignoring him and gazing at this other guy, laughing, talking in a language he doesn't understand and even touching the other guy.
In another film he would be Christian Grey and she would swoop off in his helicopter from the top of a skyscraper he owned and leave the poor husband alone because he dared to be worried about their relationship, the definition of toxic and possesive. While all the girl bosses yell "You go gurl!"
I saw a post on Reddit pointing this out and some of the posters were happy the husband wasn't "TOXIC" and stopped her, and couldn't see the husband was dying inside. No empathy.
Switch genders and this would be a completely different story.
The husband would have asked the wife if he could go on a few dates with an old flame who travelled half way around the world to meet him and spark up a romance.
The wife, "Hell Naaaaa!!"
The audience then laughs and claps.
I think most people (including myself) would look at it that way in real life, but I also try to factor in that not only was she very honest with her husband about everything, he was encouraging it and even wanted to meet him. They chose to make him the self-aware character that realizes his role in their story. Still, once she saw how awkward it was I think it becomes her responsibility to prioritize him. Her husband literally ends up consoling her because her first love is leaving.
shareHe had two roles in this story. Either be an asshole to give the audience a reason to dislike him. Or supportive so if she does go back to him the audience would be happy with the decision.
In real life he's an idiot and she's super disrespectful. He should have been on the phone to the divorce lawyer.