Missed that part.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
because she was trading "favors" with the male (most likely married) population for food and other goods she wouldn't have been able to afford otherwise.
edit: and the germans as well
Light travels faster than sound,
that's why people seem bright,
until you hear them.
Well the movie clearly pictures Malena as the most beautiful women in the town. The way all men followed her showed it, so all the wives envied her for her beauty and popularity in the town, so they had their revenge.
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You missed that part? Lol, what were you watching? You should consider being a detective with your keen observation skills.
shareBesides the rumour of her whoring around; which wasn't true, it was because she was hanging out with the Nazis. That's basically it.
shareYes. The women hated her for her beauty, for tempting their husbands, and for being supposedly loose. They wanted revenge. When the lawyer cleared Malena in court, the revenge had to wait. But when the allies liberated Italy, it was the perfect opportunity for the women. All of the gossip about Malena before the trial could not be proven, but everyone knew that Malena had slept with Nazis, and after the trials of the war, no one was in any mood to put up with a person who appeared to give comfort to the enemy. The Nazis were not the sole reason that the women attacked Malena, but they were the perfect excuse.
shareAllthough Mussolini was befriended with nazi Germany, the nazis were anything but popular in Sicily. They did not like it that the germans were there and felt occupied. When they saw the germans with the women who offered them favours their hatred rose towards those women. When the germans went away, they felt free, and it was time to have revenge on 'nazi whores'. What adds up to this is that she was known to sleep with different men before the occupation....
shareI thought it was the other whore the cruel women had beaten up. Was that Malena? That was sick the men stood by and did not eve try to help her.
shareYup, that's the crux of it - socializing with Germans. Reportedly it was quite usual at the end of WW II for people to take all kinds of revenges against women who were socializing with Germans even if there was no evidence that they were actually whoring (actresses for example). That phenomenon is always present when there is a deeply hated and loathed enemy and just about any association of a woman with such enemy is seen and the ultimate insult by her fellow compatriots.
Similar backlash is present today as well in areas where there are deep conflicts and the more popular a woman is the harsher the backlash. Imagine if popular American singer or actress was caught socializing in any way with say a known Al Qaeda figure, financier or even just a suspect sympathizer after 9/11 and then walked a street without bodyguards.
Italian filmmakers were always a bit too eager to show that kind of revenge as a way of whitewashing their own fascist past (Mussolini actually invented Fascism as a doctrine) but the same thing was happening in France on a much larger scale, not to mention Slavic countries where Germans and their satellites were actually eradicating population (Croatia and Bosnia as easy examples).