I love watching movies, anything that doesn't have too much violence or war stuff. I just feel very uncomfortable. I watched this movie called "Bridges of Madison County" by Meryl steep and Clint Eastwood. Simple but complex story, unperverted script and romance...
Let me give you all a briefing. In a very small village, Francesca(Meryl) lives her lovely but dull life with her husband and kids. Her duties are enormous right from the start of the day till the end. Never bothered to think of what she wanted to do in life, neither she tried to see. She loves her family, her husband but the routine and the midlife crisis and the question of what is her purpose makes her slightly disturbed.
Children are growing up and husband is busy and all of them go out of station leaving her for a week. When she goes out for a stroll on the bridge opposite her house, a photographer working for National geographic channel comes to her to asking for direction. She is surprised by his life style with so much freedom and his love for travelling. She falls for him and just wants to talk to him about everything she will not be able to see in her life time. Her desire and passion for life and her dull, placid life makes her to fall in love with him. She never felt so alive and the next three days are the best days of her life. She does everything she ever wanted to do and walks with him everywhere, talks to him, laughs with him and makes love to him everywhere in the kitchen, bathtub etc and etc.
Day four: It is time for her to leave him. Now she feels that he is just going to leave and brag about taking her to bed to all others and hurt her feelings and picks up a fight with him. He stands there silently and opens his heart. She knows that he really loves her. But now, she has to choose... Can she let go off her kids and husband and live with that guilt? She doesn't want her love to him be tainted in anyway. So decides to stay and continue her duties to the family with Lots of heartache and tears. She dies one day and she thinks of those 4 days even as she dies.
She writes a will and mentions that she wants to be burnt and to spread the ashes on the bridge where she met him first. She says that she could not let go of her responsibility when she was alive so at least let it mingle with him no that she is dead. Her children comes to know about this from her diary and her will. They still couldn't digest what their mother had done. At the end, they come to realise that every living person has a hidden self which lives and dies without ever having a chance to express. The children feels that at least their mom was able to live it for 4 days in her life and returns back to their lifeless shells.
True love is not just about the wedding, it has to continue for the whole life. Why is that wedding always stays not the love? Love just disappears into a thin film. If no one is happy with a family life and everyone is hurt at the end, what is the purpose of this restricting constraint? Why is that Sex for men is based on the body and for a women, its based on their minds? The laws of a society and suffocating constraints of family just makes women live in a world without air to breathe.And most of the women live a dead life anyways. But is it worth living life for others and not for ourselves...........
