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Love pentagram - SPOILERS

posted 19 years ago by totalsgimmetotals
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As opposed to the typical love triangle in movies, I see this movie as a love pentagram. There are five main charachters who all want (or in one case need) something. They all get what they seek, but nobody is really happy in the end. The two voices of reason are left standing on the curb in disbelief.

I see the five main charachters as Georgie, Meredith, Jos, the milionaire and the infant Sarah. The millionaire wants Georgie, Georgie wants Sarah and Sarah needs a stable home. Meredith and Jos think they want one another, but they really want freedom from responsibility.

All five are connected whether they want to be or not.

Georgie: roommate and would-be savior of Meredith, in love with Jos, millionaire's obsession and eventually wife, and most of all has a deep yearning to become a mother that leads her to marrying the millionaire to keep Sarah.

Meredith: wife of Jos, mother of Sarah, roommate of Georgie, and birthmother to child adopted by Georgie and millionaire.

Jos: willing lover and reluctant husband to Meredith, lover to Georgie, father of Sarah, and birthfather to child adopted by Georgie and millionaire.

Millionaire: a suitor and husband to Georgie, reluctant adoptive father to Sarah, whose birthparents are Jos and Meredith.

Sarah: birthchild of Jos and Meredith, greatly loved by Georgie, who reluctantly marries the millionaire to keep her, adopted child of Georgie and millionaire.

Everybody gets what they seek/need, but not really. Georgie gets Sarah, although she had to marry the millionaire to get her. The aging millionaire gets Georgie, but reluctantly becomes a new father to do it. Childlike Jos and calculating Meredith flee easily from responsibility, but what will it cost them emotionally down the road? Jos turns to silliness to cover up the pain, but that is temporary. In the final scene, even Sarah who suddenly has a silver spoon in her mouth and an adoptive mother who deeply loves her, cries in unhappiness, perhaps from all the hoopla surrounding her after the wedding.

The voices of reason are Georgie's father and the health worker, who are left curbside in silence as the newlyweds drive off.

just some thoughts

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[–] WarpedRecord 16 years ago

That is a brilliant analysis, totalsgimmetotals! It's too bad it's taken more than two years for someone to acknowledge it.

The relationships gave this film a distinctly European feel, and I doubt that American audiences would have embraced this story as much.

[–] laddiebuck 16 years ago

Well, I for one see it as completely missing the point; even reading some rather unlikely explanations into the film to justify some points.

For instance, the baby crying in the final scene? Oh yes, until she is passed to Georgy and stops immediately.

Life never turns out exactly as we want, at our command. That doesn't mean we're less happy. This, I feel, is a rather American view of things. Georgy doesn't get her "perfect lover", but she's a mother at heart. She gets what she wants, who are we to say she is unhappy? She was growing much less interested in Jos anyway.

James gets Georgy, and a child into the bargain. Is that so terrible?

Meredith didn't have emotions to begin with, so she just plain got what she wanted. What's coming to her down the road when she is no longer young and beautiful would have hit her no matter what with her attitude to life.

Jos is really the only character I see who has a right to be called unhappy.

And why on Earth would Georgy's father be a voice of reason? After all the ridiculous things he said all through the film? He's just a cranky, irrelevant old reactionary now. The social worker appears for a total of one scene, so it's difficult to see her as some kind of voice of reason.

[–] angelexposed 15 years ago

Yes, James GOT Georgy, however, you saw his face in the car, the unhappiness in his expression...you could tell somewhat immediately that although he got the girl, the love wasn't there with Georgy, she didn't love him back, she just wanted to keep the baby. James would probably never have the attention Georgy would lavish upon Sarah...

[–] skiddoo 14 years ago

I hope he got a prenup. :) Does anyone think they didn't get a divorce?

[–] generalusgrant 14 years ago

No such thing as a pre nup in 1966. They didn't exist. They only came about in the mid-70's and then they were exceedingly rare until the 80's.