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Too stoic (SPOILERS)

posted 13 years ago by grant-301
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First, I liked the film. But I really felt that Trintignant was overly stoic in many of the scenes, too stone-faced. I mean... especially that scene where the Quadris were murdered. Shouldn't he be showing more emotion and internal conflict in that scene, rather than blankly staring out at Anna? The stoicness pretty much ruined that scene for me. It just didn't work, and felt awkward, and wrong.

Would've been much more powerful and believable if there was clear internal conflict going on with the Trintignant character during that scene. Instead, I just got the sense that he didn't even care that the Quadris were being murdered. Which goes against the entire point of the final scene, which reveals that he was obviously very conflicted and guilt-ridden over the entire thing.

Thoughts? Thanks.

[–] happyguy99993 13 years ago

I just watched this movie... and honestly, I was a bit confused by it. But it made sense that Marcello would act stoic. To me, it seemed like all of his emotions were repressed up until the last scene, which would explain why he lacked expression. I felt it worked because it was awkward and wrong.

I'm not going there to die. I'm going to find out if I'm really alive.

[–] McGwain 12 years ago

I always thought he was just a coward that could not make up his mind on either killing or helping her (which explains manganelli's rant about cowards, homosexuals and something else I can't remember right now)