Any movie that has a man cheating on his wife he is vilified and is made out to be horrible, but in this movie are we supposed to be happy for Michelle Williams finding this new man and reinvigorating her love life? Just seems a bit absurd.
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I think you and I were watching a totally different movie. She WAS absolutely vilified. Were you clapping with her or bouncing off your seat with excitement when she ran to the idiot she chose over her husband? A man that once with her loved her so much he was perfectly willing to share her with other men (and she with other women)? This movie was not set up to like her character, if so the movie would have had a happy ending and you would have been singing her praises as the "Poor little girl lost". But NO, in the end it was just as her sister in law had told her...she had it good and all she had to do was suck it up and put up with the down time that life will always offer up no matter what. Instead she got rid of a great man who was going places, loved her, cared for her and put up with her moody crap for some guy who barely tell her he loved her in the end. When she realized she made the wrong choice she was shot down. This movie was a perfect example of the stupid choices we can sometimes make in relationships. A great look at the bull crap theory that the grass is greener on the other side. Most of the time, our grass is already as green as it will ever get but we are too self absorbed to realize it.
That was not the point of the movie at all. We were not supposed to be happy for her that she found new love...she didn't even find new love. Maybe you should rewatch it.. Or did you just watch the trailer?
share She ended up regretting her decision after the intoxication of the romance with the new guy wore off and she found herself in the ole' day to day that she was in with her husband. The alcoholic sister in law called her out on the fact that she screwed up her life by chasing some temporary thrill of escapism. She tried to get back with her husband, and he slammed the door on it. The final scene was her all alone riding on a park ride trying to escape her reality. The movie didn't "glorify" anything.
The original poster, and other 'double standard' complainers, completely missed the point of this film.
shareThere is only a double standard if you don't fully grasp the point of the movie.
To different degrees absolutely everyone is a Margo...or has some Margo in them..
Males and females alike.
This is more about the human need for sensation and the excitement people feel about the newness of things. And the drive to constantly feel that need even at the cost of simply recycling ones life again and again...
I don't think Margo is really either vilified and celebrated as any kind of heroine. It's not a judgment call. More an observation about human nature.
She's a somewhat immature needy woman who is nevertheless not evil or deep down a bad person but is a bit of a slave to her emotional need for more than what she has ..even at the cost of maybe ending up with less.
Does anyone find this uncommon in human nature?