The Bridges Of Madison County
Old dreams were good dreams… They didn’t come true, however I had them.
– I don’t want to need you.
– Because?
– Because I can’t have you.
Francesca Johnson leads a quiet life on the farm with her husband and children. After her family leaves for a fair, Francesca is left alone in the house. One day he receives an unexpected visit from Robert Kincaid, a National Geographic photographer who is visiting Madison County, Iowa, for professional reasons, as he has to photograph the old bridges of the place.
Love and mutual admiration will not be long in awakening the hidden passion of their hearts.
Clint Eastwood’s work (“The Pale Knight”, “White Hunter, Black Heart”) surprised everyone. The San Francisco-born actor and director had grown accustomed to giving away tons of good action cinema, both as a performer (“Dollar Trilogy”) and lead actor (“For a Fistful of Dollars”, “For a Few Dollars More “And” The good, the bad and the ugly “) and as director, among his masterly titles” The stranger without a name “,” Bird “and” The ruthless “. However, in 1995, Eastwood decided to change the genre.
He replaced the revolver with a bouquet of flowers and an extraordinary smile; and, with the help of an immeasurable Meryl Streep, he hit the mark.
The situation presented in the film is more than interesting as it is, and always will be, current. The protagonist is a housewife, a good wife, a good mother and affectionate, but leads an insignificant life.
One day she meets a man as attractive as she is interesting and the doubt arises: is it worth betraying the trust of her partner for an isolated dream episode?
We have all experienced situations in our lives where willpower has been severely tested. It is inevitable to feel attracted to other people at times, both because of their personality and their physique. Moreover, if, as in the case of the protagonist, we lead a dull and gray life, the ability to reflect our boredom in someone is more likely.
Perhaps we see in another man or woman everything we wish to be or have. The main fuse is insecurity and boredom.
Clearly there is another factor: the other person, our better half. If we feel abandoned or underappreciated, the most normal reaction is that sooner or later we will seek out of our relationship what we all yearn for: gratitude.
On the contrary, if our wife or our girlfriend, or our husband or our boyfriend, correspond to us as we want and as we believe we deserve, looking in others for what we do not have can be the result of our selfishness. It is a fact that starts from our innate ability to be dissatisfied with everything around us, whether it be positive or negative.
Are we bad people if we succumb to the jaws of deception? Not necessarily. Everyone makes mistakes of any kind. What should worry you is the repetition of this type of action. If we deceive and cheat repeatedly, it only means one thing: we are liars and traitors.
Nobody likes their partner to be unfaithful, so why should we commit actions we don’t want done to us? Is it because we are, society in general, hypocrites ?!
