I have just watched 'The Bridges of Madison County'.What a profoundly immoral film!
The repressed housewife has a 'fully justified fling' with an attractive passing stranger over the short period that her family are away.
The reason why the film is more immoral than outright pornography is that it is insidious; it plays on your heartstrings to elicit support for adultery under the guise of an investigation of feelings by her children after her death. The film makes you take her side.
There is never any suggestion that her husband is anything other than a hardworking and fully decent man, albeit a tad boring.
I wonder how many people have used this film as a model in the same way as many thousands inevitably will have done the same after reading Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary' which is in a similar vein.
In the end, the only positive is that she does remain with her husband but at least she has 'found herself' but is also left in a state of despair which could only have created irreparable damage to her marriage.
Oh dear. What kind of a world do we live in? Just how few people will have seen the problems a film like this causes? How many will have thought it just a 'romcom'?
One more example of how the word 'love' is misused and confused with attraction, which in a modern world, has forgotten the 7th commandment.
