I enjoyed this movie. I thought it was good, though not great. The plot was good, and the characters were interesting.
This was the story of a wealthy bored housewife in the fifties who meets a patient of the nearby mental hospital. He was on a sort of work/release program and his assignment was to do work on a nursery (I think that's what it was) outside of her families home. She is ahead of her time and is completely put off by being forced by her husband to play her wifely role and conform with the other stepford wives. She has her own mind and opinions. When she encounters this man he represents everything she desires; passion, desire, freedom, and a free spirit. She sees herself as sort of a prisoner, even though HE is the one who is imprisoned. Her affair with him is an expression of desire, freedom, and a chance to break out of her unhappy existence, overbearing husband, and evil mother in law. She does however have a son who she really loves.
She decides to run off to be with her lover who managed to escape from the asylum. When she learns of why her lover was institutionalized she is a little unnerved and when he starts exhibiting these reasons she is fearful, but not enough to end her obsession.
It seems that the entire affair is orchestrated by one of the doctors who is competing against her husband for the same big promotion and this lover of hers wasn't really an accident so much as he was a plant.
The story goes on and gets more complicated, and comes to a climactic ending.
All in all a story of life, love, passion, lack of passion, obsession, and how it intoxicates and can destroy you, and those around you. You saw her descent into madness illustrating how her lover became mad in the same way.
My problem with this movie is that there were several scenes within the movie that were meant to be serious, and me, and the rest of the audience in the theater where I was were laughing...hard. I don't think it was intended to be funny, but it was. Aside from this I thought it was a good film.
This was the story of a wealthy bored housewife in the fifties who meets a patient of the nearby mental hospital. He was on a sort of work/release program and his assignment was to do work on a nursery (I think that's what it was) outside of her families home. She is ahead of her time and is completely put off by being forced by her husband to play her wifely role and conform with the other stepford wives. She has her own mind and opinions. When she encounters this man he represents everything she desires; passion, desire, freedom, and a free spirit. She sees herself as sort of a prisoner, even though HE is the one who is imprisoned. Her affair with him is an expression of desire, freedom, and a chance to break out of her unhappy existence, overbearing husband, and evil mother in law. She does however have a son who she really loves.
She decides to run off to be with her lover who managed to escape from the asylum. When she learns of why her lover was institutionalized she is a little unnerved and when he starts exhibiting these reasons she is fearful, but not enough to end her obsession.
It seems that the entire affair is orchestrated by one of the doctors who is competing against her husband for the same big promotion and this lover of hers wasn't really an accident so much as he was a plant.
The story goes on and gets more complicated, and comes to a climactic ending.
All in all a story of life, love, passion, lack of passion, obsession, and how it intoxicates and can destroy you, and those around you. You saw her descent into madness illustrating how her lover became mad in the same way.
My problem with this movie is that there were several scenes within the movie that were meant to be serious, and me, and the rest of the audience in the theater where I was were laughing...hard. I don't think it was intended to be funny, but it was. Aside from this I thought it was a good film.