He thought she was beautiful, like a statue, but had no interest in her beyond that decorative and flimsy attraction that make men move mountains for women, which is why when he came home with a frivolous, vapid, spoiled child, her looks could not save them. It was only later when he began to develop an interest in her and a curiosity about the complexities of her being that he began to truly love her.
shareI completely agree. He was entranced with her. She was everything he wasn't, meaning his complete opposite and I think he inadvertently saw her as a challenge, the same way he saw cholera and medicine as a challenge. But only when his eyes are opened to her facets and complexities is when he begins to truly fall in love with her.
shareIf she was so "deep" why was SHE so easily fooled by her mere lover - Charlie Townsend?
She really wasn't worth wasting much time on probing her (mental) depths - at least as she was presented in the movie.
It was her "love" for her husband that was beyond shallow, initially - at first. She recognized that it was HIS love for her that was quite real all along, not the meaningless words of Charlie. Too bad she was such an idiot and basically threw away what could have been a good life for her and her children.
Her being vapid doesn't change the fact that he was just as shallow and vapid. Now does it? The point is that he didn't even bother to look deeper. And if your argument is that she was shallow (which she was) and he knew it, then he is just as shallow for being attracted to her.
shareYou seem to miss the whole major point.
SHE cheated on him. He didn't cheat on her and wouldn't even have thought to try.
Because he really did love her - shallow or not.
Maybe you confuse "romantic/sexual inexperience" (which he definitely was) with "shallow?"
Also, apparently Kitty never thought Walter's love for her was shallow, in the least - else why would she have said to Charles, "He loves me," when her locked bedroom door handle turned during their last coupling?
Charles is the one who then alluded that just maybe Walter didn't really love her - while professing his own love. All lies, wasn't it? Rather despicable manipulative lies, actually. Now CHARLES was the shallow man - no doubt about it!
You obviously missed MY point. I never excused her for cheating on him--in fact, I describe her exactly as she is. My post is about HIM, not about her. And I focused on him because most viewers would view him as noble, but my point is that he is shallow, too. He met her and "fell in love" based purely on her physical appearance. He cared nothing about getting to know her as a whole human being. How is that different from her falling for the flashy married man?
I'll never understand why people come on someone else's post to ramble about nonsense completely off topic.
I'll never understand why people come on someone else's post to ramble about nonsense completely off topic.
Walter was in love with her. He made the mistake of what many men of yesteryear (and today) make: "I'll do anything in my power to make you happy." Kitty fell in love with the man who didn't try to make her happy: Charlie, the suave sophisticate - glib, flirtatious, droll. Walter knew early on "You weren't the cleverest girl in the world" (saying bitterly after he confronts her about infidelity) so he didn't know any way to engage her and fulfill her -his intelligence obviously being higher than hers- other than to be nice to her: support her financially, play games with her (albeit reluctantly), make love to her in his unpolished eagerness (she as more sophisticated was not impressed). Notice he bought her a piano after she said "Dontcha have a piano?" I don't believe he would have ever been unfaithful to her - he had his work to escape to (actually compounding her frustrations) but in turn too he was not fulfilled with a true equal: ".... pretending I was as thrilled with you by the latest gossip ... as vulgar and uninformed in the world as you are".
shareThey hardly knew each other when the got married. She married him to get away from her mother. Not an excuse for cheating, it's just easy to understand why she fell for Charlie. She was a silly young woman.
He says he knew she didn’t love him but that she would grow to. He was right.