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So, I am a sucker for romantic movies. And movies set in
country background, with longing for lover really excites me. So, when I finally
decided to watch ‘Bridges of Madison County’ I knew I would love it, but I did
not know, to this extent.
It is a beautiful movie, will be an understatement. It is a
heart touching movie, will not be a lie. But it is a movie, which certainly lets
you believe the simplicity of relationships. Yes, there are times when you feel
trapped, yes, there are times when you have choices to make, but then, there
are times when you are freed of all these and you live for yourself and decide
for yourself.
Francesca(Meryl Streep) left Italy and settled in Iowa. She has
what a woman should have- Beauty, doting husband and two children. Not that she
is unhappy, but she definitely longs for more. And comes Robert(Client
Eastwood) with his charm of a traveler, musings of a photographer and touch of
a gentle lover. And Francesca is moved, to an extent, that her bags are packed
and she is ready to leave the world for him, but she just can’t.
The story is narrated by her to her children after her death
and makes them realize the love that she shared with a man unknown to both of
them.
Meryl Streep is brilliant and Client Eastwood is handsomely
livid. ‘ you are anything but a simple woman’ , ‘this kind of certainty come
once in a lifetime’. What I really liked that it did not show that the man took
advantage of a lonely woman, but it showed that woman wanted this. He does not
look at her in a way that she looks at him from the first instance and it is
she who takes the stand of being with her family. Yes, she is confused and in a
state of pain, she fiddles with the car door, her dress and everything. You realize
her confusion and the tough choice and you understand her final decision.
A beautiful movie for all the romantics out there
