The Lacemaker (1977)
9/10
Try not to Harm
4 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
1970s France.

A young pretty girl who never saw ocean before visits a holiday village and mets a boy in the cafe. Girl has an innocent atraction in her 19s supporting with her silence that made the boy fall in love. The boy is studying in university and coming from a rich sophisticated family where as girl couldnt study, coming from a poor family and working in a hairdresser.

They marry - first months everything was perfect.. time pass by and differences come above water. The friends of the boy reads and discussed, but girl consume all her time by gaining small money, shopping for home, cooking, cleaning..etc and making boy a confortable life.. she's a YES girl, always smily, always happy, and not demanding at all.. she's very happy with their small room with the boy... but boy is demanding, the girl becomes not enough for him. He wants much more than her, but girl did not change. What the boy seeks is something different but definitely not peace or love. Well, one day, he told her that he wants to seperate. And girl says OK, and silently move to her mum s house. That was very easy for the boy who gets no responsibility at all. He does not know LOVE at all. LOVE is something we learn from our childhood. If you dont know how to love, then you can not see or realise the love. The girl did not show her emotions at all, where the storms are blowing in her inner hearth, she behaved as if nothing happened. And then bum.. one day she can not eat, or can not walk or move.. ended in a mental hopital.

The final scene is perfectly arranged! The playing was emotional. The boy saw his ex-wife after years in the mental hospital and first time understood how he ruined 1 person's life.

As getting aged, I personally noticed that the best thing we can do is to harm other living things as less as possible. We harm. We always do. But hope to harm less.
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