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Would you get jealous? (a question for the guys)


While watching Chloe I tried to put myself in David's (Liam Neeson's character) shoes. And I have to admit, I wouldn't be the slightest jealous (I'm a guy by the way) if that was my wife cheating on me with another girl. Having some other guy sliding his tubestick in my wife is another thing, but another girl shoving her fingers in my wife is, well... OK. It wouldn't be what I would want to happen, but if it did, I can picture myself being bothered by it either.
Would you other men out there be jealous?

And yeah, to the psycho-analyzing inhabitants of the IMDB boards... why is it I'm OK with it?

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I would be. Looking at it from a distance, it's kind of like "wow that'd be hot!" However, if your wife is having a sexual affair with someone else it always boils down to the fact you're no longer satisfying her and she doesn't love you enough to hold back her sexual desires, be it male or female.

Also, she might not be bi-sexual, she might have realized she wanted only women and simply forced herself to stay with you for the kid or other various reasons. Then what? That means no threesomes or video tapes for solo happy time. In fact, she might not care for you at all at that point, much less sexually.

I get what you mean though, from a black and white/fantasy point of view it does seem like something I wouldn't mind but it's always more complicated in reality.

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I would have been furious. Man or woman, I wouldn't want anyone else being intimate with my wife. Cheating is cheating. The gender of the person she did it with wouldn't change the fact that it was a betrayal.

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Well, my wife loving someone else would piss me off... man or woman. I'm talking about her cheating on me and cheating rarely involves love. Mostly it's about sexual release or catering one's ego.

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All I'm talking about is the physical act, too. It wouldn't matter whether she had feelings for whoever it was, or if it was just sex. But I'm just old fashioned that way lol

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Ahh but you guys are missing some key meanings in this film. Catherine had sex with Chloe because at the time she thought Chloe was having sex with her husband with a sponteneity(sic?)and passion that she once shared with him. So, she was actually having sex with Chloe not because she was a lesbian but because she was trying to recapture the spark that she and her husband once had. Similarly, Chloe has sex with the son because she sees him as an extension of Catherine.

Like I'm gonna put a bullet hole in your *beep* forehead, and I'm gonna *beep* the brain hole!

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I think that's true about Chloe and the son but that hairpin in Catherines hair makes me wonder if she really had some feelings for Chloe as well but just kept telling herself it was just her husband .

Oh and OP, I think you're not jealous cause it's still a fantasy right now in your mind (where all you see is two hot women together). In reality, I think things would be different - and I don't think affairs are usually just about sex, especially if its the woman having the affair.

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Good point regarding the hairpin...leaves you wondering what her motivation is for keeping and wearing it. My wife, who enjoyed the film, thought that that part was sick.

Like I'm gonna put a bullet hole in your *beep* forehead, and I'm gonna *beep* the brain hole!

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This is total speculation but I feel like she did have some feelings for Chloe, though she probably has more maternal feelings for her than sexual feelings and feels a sense of responsibility for her death. Wearing the hairpin is her finally embracing and accepting Chloe's act of reaching out... which IMO is what the hairpin represents. (When the camera ended on that moment it gave me chills.) It was Chloe's mother's, and she's trying to give it to another mother figure. I feel like Catherine wears it at the end both to finally embrace and forgive Chloe and also to remind herself of the tragedies that can happen when we aren't careful with the feelings of others and when we can't trust those we love.

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I think it's a little more than trying to recapture the spark, but I think you're on the right train of thought... it's because Chloe is having sex with her husband (Or so she thinks.) So, IMO, she's trying to have sex with her husband by having sex with Chloe.

And the whole thing (movie) is just a great example of the complete communication break-down in her marriage. She doesn't talk to her husband or trust her husband... she talks to Chloe and believes the lies she is fed second hand about what her husband is doing. She can't find a way back to sexual intimacy with her husband... so she has sex with Chloe who is filling this role for her by being the only sexual link she has to her husband, only it's all a lie.

All these relationships are all people trying to get things they either don't know they need or can't get in an appropriate way. The husband is trying to hold onto his youth by avoiding realities that remind him of his age and surrounding himself with younger women. The wife is using Chloe to fulfill her needs not only for sex in general but for intimacy specifically for her husband. Chloe is using Catherine not only for a sexual relationship but to fill a mother role for her. She's sleeping with the son (IMO) to try to connect further with this family in the only way she knows how to connect with other people.

The son sleeps with her and is sleeping with (though he doesn't fully realize the situation), someone connected intimately with his mother. He's dealing with his own issues of how to relate to his mother and how to relate to other women. He DOES know Chloe is somehow tied in some dramatic way to his mother because of how his mother overreacts about her earlier in the film, and yet he still pursues a sexual liason with her.

The whole movie is very twisted, but fascinating about all these dynamics and relationships and need and pain all these characters have... much of it from a lack of communication and inability to fully explain/realize their needs.

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Every guy I have ever met has said that they would be more forgiving if his girlfriend cheated on him with a girl.

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My partner was quite clear as soon as we got together (over three years ago now) that despite some men not considering female-on-female action cheating, he did.

I had been with women before I met him, so that was the reason for the discussion. I'm as faithful as they come so I would have never even thought of doing that with a man or woman, but just thought I'd contribute to the thread.

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^Well if he knew u were bi then I would pressume he would take it as cheating. other guys who know i am straight have said that they want to see me have sex w/another woman, but i always tell them i wont until they have sex with a man.

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That's because it's different in a guy's head. They are thinking about how hot two beautiful women would look together. When it came down to it and a man found out the woman he loves shared an intimate moment with another human being, it would bother him. Not everyone is the same, some would be able to put it past them, but I think it would bother anyone.

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Intimacy is intimacy whether it's a man or a woman. I think everyone would feel jealous. In some ways it may be worse with a woman cause then my wife would be wanting a sexual experience I can't give her.

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