![]() I would have felt that was a sacrifice worth making, for a great man, maybe, but for a married coward? What a selfish choice.Īnd don't get me wrong, I don't like mother-bashing and I know she is far more responsible than any men in the book and does not have an easy life with her husband, nor did she have any role model in her own awful mother. And from the description she gave, her daughters lost it too, but her own sex life was worth more to her than the relationship with her own daughters. She lost all credibility to me at that moment. No, she had to wait for a notoriously unreliable playboy to find the courage to leave her cage. Alone, she was to cowardly to ever speak the truth to her husband about her own feelings. In that scene I found Elena to be a horrible opportunist. I am all for leaving a man if you're not fulfilled, but tell him outright and don't cheat on him in the next room and don't make fun of him with your lover at the dinner table in front of his daughters. She chooses to be selfish and run off with her lover, after telling her kids like five minutes before that she is leaving their father. And I fear in part she is not intelligent enough to see everything, but also in part she often does not want to see what might cause her discomfort. Linù goes to political meetings of left-wing intellectual and still can't put the name of "Mafia" on the villains in her home town. To Lila a sausage in a factory is politics. Lila is a whistleblower, a force of nature. She does not see anything politically, whereas for Lila everything is politics. To me she is a vapid narcissist, who admittedly has enjoyed a very good education, but can in no way be called an intellectual, because she has very few individual or original thoughts. ![]() She defines herself through a man, a man moreover that has treated her friend despicably. To me this is a sign of weak beliefs and principles on Elena's part.įurthermore, she especially seems to want her relationship to work to prove that she is better than Lila, because Nino has preferred her to her friend. She picks up interests like a new fashion, like a hobby, but can you call them convictions? She is interested in political feminism and then gets involved with a man who thinks free love is great and keeps fathering children without caring what happens to the women and children he leaves in his wake. She has no strong opinions on politics, on people, on the mafia, etc. Yes, she is inoffensive, not headstrong, calm, coquettish, but does that make her a good person or a good friend? But to me that is a varnish, an empty shell, a facade, a mannerism. To be liked by everyone, she will be nice and say nice things, which is why many people call her a nice person. To assert her self-image, she is incredibly dependent on the good opinion of others. Linù on the other hand is a very weak-minded and inconsistent friend. She would literally give her life to save Linù in a crisis. Yes, this truthfulness makes her tactless and she can say hurtful things. I would describe her as fiercely truthful and loyal. I think Lila is a highly sensitive, highly gifted and brilliantly creative person who says and does whatever she feels like and whatever she feels to be right, no matter the consequences. One has all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it. I would rather have a difficult friend than an untruthful one.
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