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In Reply to: Springtime in a Small Town------ posted by patrickU on July 7, 2005 at 12:35:48:

But one disagreement - I don't think love returned to husband and wife... I think indifference did. That was the tragic note in the ending, that things simply had to return to the stale and unpleasant boredom based in being used to, and not much love.
Presumably they returned to their separate bedrooms.

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Re: So you liked it too! - patrickU 01:27:41 07/08/05 (2)
OK let�s analyse it.
She says at some point to her ( not ex lover, as I assume they were in love as very young but never sleept together ) not ex lover, that when he left she was sorely alone but then she married ( arranged ) and try to be a kind of good wife to her husband.
OK so far?
Then she wants to kill him.
But he does that himself after understanding the situation ( like Jesus in the garden he cry ) when he tried to commit suicide.
From that on she realise, what she would have done if her not ex-lover would have not refused to follow his advice and so became " amants diabolique ".
Now in that understanding she can renew with her first " good intention " at the very start of her marriage, and what is more with the enlightement of how a good man her husband his.
Not wanting to hurt his best friend even he knows that he is in love with his wife, and she, because he loves her, but not willing to stand in between her happiness.
And when, at the very end, she refuse to go to the railway station, against the convention that underline very well her intention & her will for a new respect and a new love to her husband.
That is a new start, in a common bedroom.
I may think.
- Re: So you liked it too! - Victor Khomenko 07:45:41 07/08/05 (1)
  Hi Patrick,
  My memory is not fresh enough any longer to discuss it down to that detail, but I remember the feeling both my wife and I had at the end - that things were simply back to the boring self again. I guess since it was somewhat unsaid, one would have to experience the feelings again to re-evaluate the observation. Neither of us saw the birth of new love, however.
  But in reality, this what makes the film closer to life - where love, indifference and hate often coexist, and often the external events make one more obvious. There is also that thing emotion of the moment, being caught in it, but that usually quickly subsides. You can often see it in people around you.
  That what makes it more interesting - the lack of simple answers.
  - Re: So you liked it too! - patrickU 08:01:53 07/08/05 (0)
    Well, not a new passion but a new love based on mutual repect.
    And definitively I do not see it like a continuation of the old state of feeling between the two.
    Again, when he insist that she should bring him down to the railroad station and her mimic and answer was a clear indication that her passion has come to an end and that she is ready for a new start, to me.
    This film was more like a theater play. Very static and sometimes it remind me of Sartre.
    I very like it. And it show us the universality of feeling. And that civilisation, in the end is the way to be.
    Yes there are no answers. Maybe it is us who just with this " drang " to always try to classified every things tend to complicated more the matters than help them.
    Words are just fictive.

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