Journey to Italy
In many ways, this film has reminded me of “Two for the Road” with the not less splendid Audrey Hepburn. In fact, Ingrid Bergman (despite her awful hairdo) has saved the film for me. Everything else was not exactly boring – because no relationship movie could ever bore me – but I was so fed up with the protagonists who in my eyes clearly did not love each other anymore but were just pointlessly jealous. I can see how the sudden confrontation of ‘losing’ the other person might provoke some feelings, but even then, it was so lame that this outburst of emotions has so suddenly made them overcome all the very evident problems in their relationship that they have. In fact, nothing was resolved at all and I really dislike that.
I really wonder if long term relationships always to end up in such a clichéd, awful way. Then again, things changed these days, I guess. It’s rarely the “man works all day, woman is lonely and bored” constellation anymore, I guess (and when it is, it’s probably a rather lame relationship anyways). Then again, I could nearly fully identify my own feelings with “Jules and Jim”, but not with this film at all… I wonder why. Is it because of the ‘passion’? *heh*
By the way, I want children too and I can see that being a point of contention as soon as I enter a more ‘serious’ age for it. And I wonder what my child would say if I told him/her that I just got him/her because I was curious to see what it is like to be a mother. If the child is some cruel and curious person like me, he/she would probably even approve… oh God.