Katherine - awful woman

Just re watched this film a few seconds ago.
And I don't hate her, I felt terrible for her because she loved both men in a different way , she was truly feeling guilty for that affair but she just couldn't leave or stop loving that man.


And I don't blame her, Almasy was so intense and so hot.

i actually saw Almasi try to resist his compulsion to have her in the early stages by trying to tell her husband not to leave her alone, etc. But, And mind you, I'm speaking of the early stages of just making acquaintances, I thought Katherine was purposely very provocative - in the story she chose to recite, in her approaching Amasi in an "innocent" and casual way that she knew was not innocent considering his obvious fascination with her. In my opinion she courted disaster. She was looking for a casual fling (as was Amasi) but it unexpectedly became more for both of them.

I don't like that she took her marriage so lightly. The way it was portrayed in the movie - as if she married her husband but was not romantically in love with him, made me conclude if she had not fallen in love with Amasi, the behavior of illicit affairs with random strangers would be the norm for her (and Amasi was probably not her first one).

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I TOTALLY agree. When she came to see him in that white dress. Shameful. He tried and tried to push her away, but she wouldn't let him. She ruined lives because of her lust.

I've lost people before, so when I care about someone I plant a tracking device on them.

when her husband died, who they knew since 3, there was little remorse. She was a terrible person at the end of it.

I didn't hate her and I was sad when she died but I wasn't too broken up by it. I was more upset that her husband chose to do what he did. He loved her too much to be able to handle the infidelity. He never learned to let go. They were friends since they were three and he probably loved her for almost as long as that and probably could not imagine life without her.

I do think Katherine was a bit of a bonehead in her choices of men. It was stated that after crying on his shoulder for the Nth time over some guy he convinced her to marry him. She seemed to always fall for the type of guy who would hurt her and let her down and she went to Colin Firth's character for comfort afterwards. In the end, even though Almasy did not intentionally let her down, he still hurt her by not coming back for her and letting her die alone in that cave. She again was let down and hurt by some guy but this time her husband wasn't around to comfort her.

Yeah she was maybe a somewhat spoiled english aristocratic woman - but one cannot compair sufferings. Remember this sentence "all happy families are alike but all unhappy families are unhappy in their own particular way"? She did what she did out of love and unfortunately in a war surrounding, she seemed a bit passive compared to the men around her who had "serious jobs" instead of just being a "rich white wife" who visits foreign countries and *beep* hot strange hungarian royals who have enigmatic eyes and are good storytellers. Maybe in a "zombie" version of the book, catherine would not die, but climb in front to Geoffrey, slap him in the face, land the plane safely, rescue almassy, bring both back to hq, make em some sandwiches and sweet date-tee, organize a restistance, kill evil germans, sew on carravaggios thumbs ("and never admitting to it") get divorced from Geoffrey, break up with almassy and befriend hana, go with her to Quebec and write a sequel to Pipi Longstocking. Dying in bed surrounded by her kids when she is 97 years old. Is that better? I ll email Oondatje later ;)

Slut: a woman with the morals of a man. (Urban Dictionary)

One must disagree with you. Katharine is by no means a slut. She and Almasy had perhaps three encounters in the film. It's been 20 years since I read the novel so I can't remember how long their love affair lasted before Katherine broke it off but it was not long. She had no one e else outside her marriage but Lazlo, Count de Almasy.

Katharine fell in love with Count Almasy. She told him she loved him when he was carrying her from the airplane wreckage into the Cave of the Swimmers. This was a grand passion. Whatever her sins, she died alone in a cave without comfort on a stone floor. Cause of death: dehydration. Surely she has paid for her sins.




Bored now.