I know there are tow doctors,a wife,a mistress,a secretary who help him to write down his words,and a classical beauty.The problem is that they all look similar to me.
What do you think?
BTW, I am an Asian. Some people in my contry also think it's difficult to distinguish.
I kept getting mixed up between the guy in the wheelchair and Max Von Sydow's son. Thank God one of them was in a wheelchair or I'd have been lost completely.
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What an absurd thing to say. The double standard here is entirely in your head. You've taken a perfectly innocuous remark and tured it into something it's not. For why, I don't know.
shareI rarely had trouble telling them apart. I thought Henriette was the prettiest, though.
shareThey were hard to distinguish in the book too, and you couldn't even see them, haha.
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It's difficult for me to distinguish the women characters in this movie?"
I don't know, is it? How should I know what's hard for you to distinguish?
I agree. Why couldn't the director cast women who don't look so similar?
shareI had the same problem. Only after reading some messages here did I understand the scene where his ex-wife is relaying a message between him and his current girlfriend.
shareNot really. This didn't trip me up at all.
shareOn my first viewing of the movie, I had a problem distinguishing the women, but on the second viewing, I paid closer attention to how they were introduced and never had a problem identifying and tracking them throughout. Being able to do so GREATLY enhanced my emotional appreciation of the characters, their situations, and the movie in general.
shareI think perhaps the "difficulty" in distinguishing them is that they are all somewhat similar-looking and approximately the same age.
There are five women (as I see it): the "wife"; the ex-girlfriend; two therapists; the transcriber.
Minor spoilers:
Each woman plays an important part in the protagonist's life; each of them "loves" him in varying degrees; he in turn loves and is sexually attracted to each of them.
Given the protagonist's extreme condition it is natural to assume a certain "blending" of their roles and even personalities.
War, one war after another,
Men start 'em who couldn't put up a good hen-roost.
Many thanks to the OP for raising this question and to all the people who responded.
I'm American; I first saw this movie about 4 years ago and again tonight -- and I had some difficulty distinguishing between them and keeping straight who was who.
I counted SIX beautiful women
4 blondish girls, ( speech therapist, occupational therapist,book transcriber, ex "wife")
2 brunettes (the empress, mistress)
Loved them all!