Women over 45 really hate this?!?!?
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Kitzypoo — 16 years ago(January 24, 2010 10:13 PM)
I did wonder why she couldn't get hold of a razor blade or some way to commit suicide - but they said more than once that she couldn't, for some reasons I didn't understand fully.
By no means do I have any certain knowledge regarding the "right" answer, but the way I understood her situation is that a suicide would've likely been interpreted by the Germans simply as an attempt to escape, and hence the consequences would've been just as awful to her daughter. Whereas being assassinated by someone else, even willingly (to escape the moral dead end of having to sacrifice either the daughter or the resistance), would possibly be a whole another matter.
At the time of writing this, the rating by Females Aged 45+ has gone even lower, from 4.3 (according to the first post) to 2.9 (with 275 votes). I, too, found the slow pacing a bit demanding at times, even though someone like Tarkovsky is one of my absolute favourite directors, and certainly the film doesn't have many qualities that are conventionally thought to connect with women (romance, children, more personal or family relations, even the more abstract ethical and existential questions, and so on), but still that seems awfully low. Perhaps the tomentingly ambiguous, "back against the wall" sort of ethical and existential questions regarding warfare are just too foreign to them to raise much personal interest, beyond the black-and-white "home front sentiments" like "Say no to war" or "Just wipe out those filthy Whatnots and bring our boys back home" (neither of which are really viable options here)? Or maybe the whole film is just too bleak and fleshless? Whatever the reason(s), I, too, admit to being intrigued. -
max von meyerling — 16 years ago(February 23, 2010 02:49 PM)
How can someone get this far into an arcane discussion of a film and be surprised that a lot of the inner workings of the film have been revealed. I would think to participate, or even just observe, in such a discussion that one might first see the film.
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sillyhat — 14 years ago(April 25, 2011 02:19 PM)
Is Mathilde really the villain of the piece? I don't see the film as having any clearcut good or bad guys among the Resistance members - all are fighting for a just cause but all end up being compromised in some way. I see Mathilde more as a tragic figure faced with an impossible decision.
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J. Spurlin — 15 years ago(March 09, 2011 11:29 PM)
imdb.com/board/10064040/ratings
The ratings by women over 45 are phony. This seems to be a problem on a wide variety of non-U.S. classics. See a discussion about it on the Contributor board:
imdb.com/board/bd0000042/nest/164364008
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Justin