The japanese version...I didn't even see the Richard Gere version because I heard it was stupid, and I don't know of the story was the same.
But in the japan version, the man becomes infatuated with a dancing woman he sees in a dance studio window while he waits for his train each night. Eventually this inspires him to go to her for dance lessons.
He does sort of fall in love with her, but he realizes over time it is more about the dancing than her. By the end of it, his teenaged daughter basically "outs" him about the dancing (because he has been doing it in private) and tells him to his face "why are you dancing with that woman and not with my mother!" It becomes clear that he and his wife had simply forgotten how to be close, and by the end, they appear to be back on track (or headed that way).
It is a very touching and powerful movie - basically about cheating or the beginnings of cheating - but with a happy ending for the married couple. They leave you with the feeling that the couple will be better off than they would have been if he had not begun this EA with the dancer.
Well, this experience blew any notion that "Love means never having to say you're sorry" out of the water!
I bought Premonition for H as a stocking stuffer this past Christmas because Sandra Bullock's in it. I'm really glad I decided to watch it on a rainy afternoon when he wasn't home. I had no idea that infidelity was a theme.
I think that a combination of Diary of a Mad Black Woman and The Notebook somehow balanced things out and spoke to me.
"The Four Seasons," 1981, Alan Alda's directorial debut. Three couples vacation together over the years; one husband has a mlc, dumps his wife, assumes he'll remain part of the group....
I remember that film. Very well done. If I recall, in the beginning, the group feels quite bad about their friend dumping his wife and taking up with a woman about half his age. But in the end, they accepted him and the OW and everyone lived happily ever after.
"The Four Seasons," 1981, Alan Alda's directorial debut. Three couples vacation together over the years; one husband has a mlc, dumps his wife, assumes he'll remain part of the group....
I remember that film. Very well done. If I recall, in the beginning, the group feels quite bad about their friend dumping his wife and taking up with a woman about half his age. But in the end, they accepted him and the OW and everyone lived happily ever after.
Ouch, not one we all would like the outcome of, huh? I think that is the fear of every LBS...
Okay, I can't believe someone hasn't brought us "Fatal Attraction", talk about a crazy OW!!!!
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
uh the show Reba? Barbara Jean makes my ex hubbys wife look stupider than she is lol!
M 36 XH 34 3 children If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. Mark 3:25 "your mood swings are giving me whiplash" twilight ALIVE FREE AND HAPPY 2010
A movie that has taken on a different meaning for me since all of this happened is "Bridges of Madison County". At least Franscesca (I think that was her name) did come to her senses and think what it would do to her family. Remember when the movie came out, everyone thought she was noble because she put aside her feelings for the family. I guess it was like meant to seem like a tragic romance. Funny, how everyone had sympathy for her, but now, I bet we would all think she should had enough self-restraint in the first place. It also shows how affairs do happen. The marriage hits a lull and one becomes unfulfilled, bored, and lonely. All of the sudden a romantic mysterious stranger comes into town. Sounds romantic, huh? I think not! Remember the husband was a good guy, hard working, trying to take care of family, but just not exciting or romantic enough for her. Doesn't that "describe" most of us?
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
