Why does the grandmother eat so much 'cake'?
I don't understand why the grandmother eat so much cake toward the end. Could someone enlighten me please?
shareShe had diabetes. She chooses to die eating.
shareThank you for replying. I am sorry I tried to veil my original question, intending it to mean why did she choose to commit suicide? As Roman Catholic is the "official" religion of Italy, the grandmother character must have known it is a mortal offense religiously to commit suicide.
Anyone else who can offer an insight?
Thank you.
In a very wide sense, your question about Catholic religion, Italians' religion and Italians' attitude towards suicide is a very tough question, which I think I am not able to answer to.
With respect to the grandmother character:
as you could realize, she is probably the most open-minded person of the whole family, the only one able to understand and to be part of the secrets of her nephews, she has had a very particular life, a marriage with a man and an unconfessed (because unrealizable) life-long love with the husband brother, probably she has a vision of life for which death is only a necessary step ahead.
Her voice is left behind to those who will always love her, as she states in the very last quotes of the movie.
Very touching ....
Calling it suicide seems a little extreme. Yes, she knowingly ate the cake. But the diabetes(ilnness) took her life. She died naturally.
shareof course it's suicide.
it's like driving fast in traffic and going to a opposite direction track on purpose, and then after being killed not calling it a suicide, but accident.
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Being quite the insightful, smart character I doubt she was stupid enough to believe that fairy tales would cause her eternal damnation.
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