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Giuseppina was poorly written (Spoilers)

posted 3 years ago by BeaSouth (2923)
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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?

[–] GordonGartrelle (1267) 3 years ago

It was all so bizzare. She slept with Harold because Dickie wasn't giving her enough attention and was curious about sleeping with a black man.

And he didn't need to be a psychotic mobster, you don't tell any man who loves you to death that you slept with someone else in a deserted area.

I remember just talking to the screen after the words came out her mouth, "So She's dead."

[–] JepGambardella (469) 3 years ago

Movie-wise, my biggest pet peeve is when a character makes a completely illogical decision - so yes, her confessing out of the blue for no reason whatsoever pissed me off.

[–] BeaSouth (2923) 3 years ago

Especially a character who’s been written as enterprising and clever up to the point of her incomprehensible decision