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Giuseppina was poorly written (Spoilers)

posted 3 years ago by BeaSouth (2844)
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Giuseppina - presented throughout the movie as a primary character and the clever, ambitious immigrant-mistress of Dickie - inexplicably decides to make a brainless confession to him on a deserted beach that she had sex with his arch rival for whom who he holds racial contempt. She does this knowing full well that he is a psychotic mobster who is suspected of having savagely murdered his own father (and her husband). You watch this and you think why the hell would she do this?

[–] McQualude (4231) 3 years ago

Lazy way to get rid of the character and make us feel like less sympathy for Dickie.

[–] MartyDeniro (4066) 3 years ago

yeah, that didn't fly

[–] TheArgentinian (6526) 3 years ago

Men writing female characters part...?

[–] Bloodshot77 (10148) 3 years ago

Poor man's Penelope Cruz.

[–] SlackerInc (1089) 3 years ago

It was uncanny!

[–] Bloodshot77 (10148) 3 years ago

Except that giant mole

[–] Naptown317Native (524) 3 years ago

I thought the only person who suspected anything about his dad, was his Uncle - who I'm not convinced was real but a figment of his imagination to help cope with having murdered his father, kind of like the mental creations Tony himself would later use.

[–] BeaSouth (2844) 3 years ago

Well, you make a good point. But she was too smart to make a mistake that dumb even if her info was more limited as you suspect. Here’s What Giuseppina must have known at the time she goes to the beach with Dickie and makes her confession:
• The Moltisantis are Cosa Nostra gangsters
• She told Dickie his father beat her up and Dickie comforts her and they kiss and within days her husband is dead
• Her husband never mentioned anything to her about going to the warehouse / garage in the middle of the riots where his body was later found bludgeoned and burned
• She’s present when Dickie’s mobster buddies crack a bunch of racist jokes about Harold and she certainly knows that Italian mobsters don’t tolerate infidelity let alone with black men
• The beach is completely desolate

[–] SlackerInc (1089) 3 years ago

I don’t know if she had reason to suspect him in the death of his father. But it was an incredibly stupid thing to do anyway.

[–] Jeepster (1035) 3 years ago

You’re the sharpest person in here Bea, & I’m saying that truthfully. That’s exactly what I WAS thinking watching that scene. It made no freaking sense whatsoever. One minute you’re on top of the world, the next you’re in Davy Jone’s locker. What would possess her or anyone to go & tell him that? That’s freaking crazy, talk about lazy & unrealistic writing. SMH.

[–] BeaSouth (2844) 3 years ago

I appreciate the compliment. But, your point is a good one about not being able to imagine ANYONE making a confession under circumstances like this. Take away all the mob stuff and her previous experience being pushed down a flight of stairs by an angry Moltisanti man she had also provoked. You just can’t imagine anyone would make a confession and humiliate their partner like this in a scenario where there was no one around in case the person got physical.

[–] Boricanator (1376) 3 years ago

Yeah, she acted stupid. But I wouldn’t say she was poorly written.

People act this stupid in real life.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

It was simply stupid. At the very least they should have allowed her to get pregnant but at the birth it becomes clear she was sleeping with a black man... at that point you have Dickie kill her and the baby and you get a much less sympathetic Dickie and a more realistic scenario for him finding out she's been banging someone else.

[–] Jeepster (1035) 3 years ago

You know, that ain’t bad, not bad at all. Kinda wished that it played out like that. IF she WAS pregnant, then I would understand why her hand would be forced to tell Dickie about the affair, but she wasn’t right?