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She hesitated (spoilers)

posted 11 years ago by blue_katri
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I've been reading a lot of boards, but this is my first message.
Even though the movie doesn't have extraordinary frames or moments, their acting and chemistry helped a lot and made the movie one of my favorites.

I think that she could have said to him in an earlier stage: you should divorce her, but she didn't (maybe wanting him to be more insistent), but hopefully in the end they did see each other in six months and were happy again. (the ending is open)

What do you think? Could they manage to meet and have a normal relationship?

[–] 11 years ago

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[–] !!!deleted!!! (36957384) 11 years ago

Well, the separation would at least force them to make a decision. I guess we're supposed to believe they loved their spouses as much as they loved each other. It wasn't as if they were staying with their spouses out of obligation. She got pregnant and he married after their affair started so I didn't really have a lot of sympathy for them. It's also hard for me to believe the scenario to begin with since whenever I was in love I wasn't looking elsewhere. Other men weren't even on my radar. I guess he was willing to leave his wife though but my feeling is that she wouldn't leave her husband. She never really considered it. And I suspect that if they moved their relationship to outside the bedroom it might very well lose its appeal.

[–] lamont-hard 11 years ago

They never said how she felt about her husband, I agree there seemed to be no major problem with him. And as you say, I don't remember her giving any dialect about how she was ready to leave him. Maybe she was waiting for somethin negative to happen in her marriage. In the end why would she leave him [husband] without even knowing if having an affair is any where near as great as living with him and he being a good step dad or even having her kid raised by two men.....She never talked about anything important but always listened to his pity me rants/woe is me conversations. He never even asked about what was wrong at home of I remember correctly.

[–] Anniston 11 years ago

I don't think they would have fared well in the real world due to the dynamic between them created by the affair. Had they met when they were both single, they likely would have had a great future.

However, when two people begin their bond with an affair, everyday life is dull and very vanilla in comparison. They would have always been chasing the high their affair afforded them.

If you're not responding to me, "reply" to the post you're responding to. kthanks.

[–] PeterMedina 11 years ago

Do you really think they were chasing the high of an affair? I think they fell in love, they even said so, but that the circumstances of their lives didn't have room for their love, or they didn't know to take charge of it. I don't know if I can call this a cheater movie, neither of them were married when they met.

[–] GuyOnTheLeft 10 years ago

It's hard to tell what's what when you are in the midst of it. I don't wag my finger at infidelity, and I do think it's possible to be in love with multiple people at once. However, I also think that the cliches about "the grass is greener" and "forbidden fruit" have a lot of validity. There's an excellent film called Take This Waltz that digs into that territory, with the phrase "what's new gets old" (I won't say anything more than that so as not to spoil).

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[–] ksf-2 7 years ago

i like the fact that so many things are un-answered... and even un-asked.

sometimes the charm of things is the "unknown". when you analyze and know exactly where everyone stands, it comes apart. we never meet the spouses, so our opinion isn't tainted by knowing them, which might make us feel more sorry for them.