amicus
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A ten year old film so I won't warn about spoiling it for you. But I have watched this several times for several reasons; enjoy Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas, but, watching again the other night, I noted a couple of lines of dialogue of a minor character concerning infidelity in marriage and it raised a point of interest.
The plot concerns a married policeman and a married politician whose mates were having an affair. A plane crash killed both the policeman's wife and the politician's husband which exposed the fact that they were together on the plane.
It becomes a bit of a morality play, as the two main characters were in love with and faithful to their respective partners killed in the crash.
The minor character, a friend of the politician, Kristin Scott Thomas, spoke of her husband having an affair that she discovered while she was having an affair with someone else.
Here is what I recall of the line of dialogue; "If I thought that being married meant I could never feel the excitement of romance again, never know that thrill of a new encounter....I would feel old..."
"I would feel old..."
Someone wrote the story, of course, and created the two opposing views; one of marriage, meaning fidelity and loyalty and an end to the excitement of a new romance, and the other postulating that a different kind of marriage accepted the infidelity. Another twist is that the adulterous couple did not tell each other of their affairs.
Even after the main characters knew of the affair of their deceased spouses, they still were in 'love' with them and neither had cheated on the other.
Ah yes, there was, 'guilt' involved as the policeman's wife queried, "Why am I doing this?" And she had made love with her husband that morning just before boarding the flight to meet her lover.
A little 'soapie', I guess, and I know what my moral position would be but I would like to hear others....ifin you are of a mind...
Amicus...
The plot concerns a married policeman and a married politician whose mates were having an affair. A plane crash killed both the policeman's wife and the politician's husband which exposed the fact that they were together on the plane.
It becomes a bit of a morality play, as the two main characters were in love with and faithful to their respective partners killed in the crash.
The minor character, a friend of the politician, Kristin Scott Thomas, spoke of her husband having an affair that she discovered while she was having an affair with someone else.
Here is what I recall of the line of dialogue; "If I thought that being married meant I could never feel the excitement of romance again, never know that thrill of a new encounter....I would feel old..."
"I would feel old..."
Someone wrote the story, of course, and created the two opposing views; one of marriage, meaning fidelity and loyalty and an end to the excitement of a new romance, and the other postulating that a different kind of marriage accepted the infidelity. Another twist is that the adulterous couple did not tell each other of their affairs.
Even after the main characters knew of the affair of their deceased spouses, they still were in 'love' with them and neither had cheated on the other.
Ah yes, there was, 'guilt' involved as the policeman's wife queried, "Why am I doing this?" And she had made love with her husband that morning just before boarding the flight to meet her lover.
A little 'soapie', I guess, and I know what my moral position would be but I would like to hear others....ifin you are of a mind...
Amicus...
