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Love this film but...

posted 11 years ago by Marion_C
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As much as I appreciate and respect Duff's struggle, the part where he shoves his wife, tells "her love don't matter," doesn't apologize immediately, and basically just randomly abandons her is hard to compensate… He does go back to her in the end, but it just feels like she was reduced to just a "I will lovingly wait for my man to come back while he goes on and acts like a jerk" type character.

"MALLL NOOO, JESUS CHRIST!" - Leonardo DiCaprio, Inception

[–] flaiky 9 years ago

Yes, I'm inclined to agree with this. Duff is clearly troubled and frustrated but shouldn't have been forgiven so easily - it doesn't give a great message. I would have liked Abbey Lincoln's character to be developed a bit more.

Very good, interesting film overall though.

I’ll be waiting, with a gun and a pack of sandwiches.

[–] jackbnimbleharvardblue 8 years ago

It was a different time. Women were more forgiving of abuse. It doesn't make it right, but it was believeable for 1964.

[–] GordonGartrelle (1267) 4 years ago

Correct.