Roundabouts, Yves Allegret runs in 1950, it is fairly misogynist film? No, provide the most sophisticated moviegoers, perhaps if I am tempted to say to me, even passing in the eyes of cinema lovers for movie lovers Sunday.
While it is not impossible to see the actions of Dora and her mother committed against this poor Robert, honest and shy director of a riding center in Paris they are eaten and put on the straw, the very one on which his horses sleep, its fine horses as soon he will no longer, it will be forced to sell to meet the growing needs of these two women, low grooming which were forced to use some women of modest extraction to finally leave the last rung of the social ladder on which they were the fault of a society at the time the film, always as sexist, and from there to imagine that it is made proudly rides the lawyer, because it's true that looking good, very defensible speech can be found. Deprived of any property not to be born in those settings where toddlers are fed with a silver spoon that would, of course, an English nurse's hand, deprived of this education that provides access to financial businesses satisfactory by the mere fact of being a woman, Dora the film, like Dora all non-fiction of his day, did not in fact really had no choice, in order to afford a little piece of paradise on earth, than to appeal to its charms. Rides and say again, in her final scene, through a nurse highly indignant at the attitude of Robert transformed by anger, as women are, and always will be, as the plaything of men.
But, dammit, as the film has the look of Yves Allegret iceberg upside-down, to drown his subtle about in a mass of ice - and immediately noticeable that one - and scenes totally adverse situations Women! For a while, I'd say Rides Consider that under his shiny, it's a bit like trying to plant a tree outside the forest can no longer see him.
Among these scenes and situations, of course there are all those where you can hear Dora and her mother laugh at the credulity of the good old Robert, the laughter repeated and repeated that they do not beautiful heroines and evil but merely vulgar and criminal, to be treacherous, sneaky, disloyal, like those knives that door in the back, make us a hand, not perceive that man as a victim, a victim might have more desire to help as much face snowman Bernard Blier, which interprets the expression goes, and the innate goodness of the man, and born only of silliness ignorance of the mischief that he is, and secondly, we refer to the image - could not be more trite - of course women cheat as all the wickedness of Dora and her mother, without exception, will be punctuated by the laughter ferocious, fierce as if the laughter to be the necessary accompaniment, fell more or less reflex, had no other source than instinct. Certainly Louis, playboy chic larger than the fortune and mustache less than is lying at his watch, by agreeing to become the lover of Dora, a Dora then willing to afford " for once a good boy, " pay is also head of the old Robert. But soon, in fact, once the couple had eaten their first night of love in this seedy hotel room in Neuilly that the gallant lives, the scenario will rehabilitate this man by giving him an attractive early conscience "It is late you should get dressed and go home, "says indeed Louis Dora, Dora, who seems to then also unable to obey him, the furious desire to do it again which takes a whole at the time of preventing that to understand what these words express, as they say, in fact, a huge need, he feels that her lover to terminate more quickly to kisses and caresses, each of these acts of love on her acting in the manner a breath of air thrown on a fire to spur the guilt he felt toward Robert suddenly. Basically, when Louis said again and again to Dora: "It's late, you should get dressed and go" , it should have heard: Do not exaggerate the evil that I extend to Robert our night of love.
And since in this type, which had at first taken for a combined brother of Dora, this awareness of "the harm it does to Robert" will go on expanding - and to expand it expands, rides over the minutes that pass while yielding Louis, pity for his first hero cheated: "I feel discomfort, Robert is a good man " say he indeed Dora, kindness and repentance then: after leaving the service of Robert, the man, yes, dare to offer him a check!, and even a nice role as a preacher, certainly dishonest in words to slap Dora the words "Your manners always feel the team" but oh so precious and moral, to try to reason with crazy and naughty aspirations of the lady - and that one to one climbs the rungs of the ladder of honesty even faster than the heroine rides, with its machinations and intrigues on constantly is lowered, the image of this woman, by comparison, becomes all the more detestable. To tell the truth to Louis, to enter the scene in a sort of male counterpart to Dora and to dissociate themselves very quickly to not like him at all, he leaves behind him dragging the unfortunate impression of being part of those characters that a writer, a filmmaker, a writer invents and develops at length the sole purpose of bringing readers, moviegoers and readers, to think like him. In other words, to become the beautiful Louis St. Louis we force the hand. And as Louis is a man and a woman is Dora, and rides like this, the woman who could bring the distance back, objectivity not to plagiarize Dora and her mother has not come track, and rides like the two heroines are not contemptible than just friends that shared taste for deceit would have met, but a mother and daughter and that this relationship, only to be thwarted by anything here, As the two women look alike and occupy all the land female leaves the door open to very misogynistic, and they all are, we should really wait until the final scene, hear Robert enjoy a vengeance all male, two paralyzed legs by accident Dora him to wash in a sadistic smile of his male pride trampled hundred times, a hand which I would say quite the way it was intended as very clean on it, hardly objectionable, both legs paralyzed by an accident of Dora, to prevent it now chasing the wealthy man with few acquaintances with famous "You lived by the sword, you will perish by the sword " of St. Matthew, to be able to say that five years after being granted voting, women, movies, walking far behind men?
