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sampodem
Aug 28, 2013
This movie is about a lot more than just a boy's puberty and infatuation with an older woman. The lead actress playing Malena is gorgeous by the way. She also has a very sour and dour expression. Her facial expression carries very much the frustration, annoyance, and bad feelings associated with being a sex object and humiliated. IMHO, this movie is an indictment more against society, men & women, who were jealous or coveted a woman's beauty, who's only sin was being pretty. She really was not hussy. Then, because of how society treated her, society forces her into prostitution. For which, the same society then punishes her. This movie has 2 heroes. The husband who goes and gets her back. The boy who is the only one to think of her properly, not believe the rumors about her and have respect for her. Even though the boy shows little courage in most of the film, he does good. The boy commits the act of true love. (Don't want to be a spoiler.) This was really a great movie.