I felt kinda sorry for Giorgio
I felt kinda sorry for Giorgio
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I know that this is 5 years after the fact, but I also feel sorry for Giorgio.
I think that this whole film is a huge testament to the tragedy of child abuse. Giorgio was not born that way, he was created.
To me, the most harrowing parts of the film is where Giorgio tries to communicate with the hooker...he tried to show her what was done to him. His tongue cut out...making communication impossible, and his demasculination...which I'm not certain if he understands.
What he does to her is a mirror image of what was done to him...which so often happens in reality. So many of those abused go on to abuse their own children. It's what they know.
Then with the daughter...when he tries to show her the picture of who he is, and he realizes she is blind. That part is so terrible...I think he sympathizes with her, and he tries to comfort her in his fashion. And she doesn't understand, Can't understand...
I wish they had played that up instead of just making him a mindless monster in the end.
"Giorgio was not born that way, he was created.
To me, the most harrowing parts of the film is where Giorgio tries to communicate with the hooker...he tried to show her what was done to him. His tongue cut out...making communication impossible, and his demasculination...which I'm not certain if he understands."
EXACTLY! You hit the nail on the head.
When the hooker rejected Giorgio, that's when he freaked out.
He wanted so badly just to be loved and accepted.
I know it's easy to hate Giorgio for him killing the old lady and the cat.
But the cat was his mother's cherished pet and Giorgio probably felt rage and jealousy towards the cat because basically the cat was treated better than he was!
Thus Giorgio decided to kill the cat to get back at his mother. (He was unaware she was dead, probably.)
And the old lady..........well, he killed her after the hooker rejected him.
So Giorgio killed her in a blind rage.
I think that Giorgio, had he been raised correctly and not abused, would have been a good person but unfortunatley he was treated so horribly and never shown love that he never learned to love.
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I, too, felt very sorry for Giorgio. He wasn't born that way, his mother did those horrible things to him so she could get back at his father. As Agnese said, "it's against nature, against God".
Giorgio tried to reach out to people in the beginning and when he was rejected he became what his mother turned him into, a freak.
In the end I was glad that he died, but felt a sadness for him to the end as his life did not have to be that way.
I felt very sorry for Giorgio. I can't understand what the mother was thinking. She sure got off easy dying of a heart attack while the maid and the hooker had to suffer for her sins.
shareOf course, you're MEANT to feel sympathetic toward Georgio. ( And who wouldn't? ) He is the classic tragic figure, especially since he can't even take revenge upon his abuser, as she's long dead. The maid mentioned that the Duchess had lost her mind after her husband left her, but how vicious do you have to be to take your revenge so brutally upon your own flesh and blood, over and over for DECADES on end?!?! Sounds to me like SHE was the real monster here! Do you suppose that might explain why her husband left her in the first place?
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