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Unfaithful
Director:Adrian Lyne
Writers:Claude ChabrolAlvin SargentWilliam Broyles Jr.
Stars:Richard GereDiane LaneOlivier Martinez
Unfaithful is an achingly sad portrayal of the lives that two very different men lead, and the woman who shares their lives in two very different ways. Diana Lane is beautiful. She is an exquisitely sensitive actor and so we can forgive her more than we would another woman who breaks the heart of her husband and tears asunder a marital life that most can only dream of.
But, here's the thing. Desire is what motivates all of us, whether we are buying a bar of chocolate or choosing which sport to watch. Desire is in us all. After years of fidelity, a beautiful woman has the chance to experience the thrill of another beautiful man's desire, a younger man, an adventurous man, who reignites something in her that was buried for some time, or successfully resisted on other occasions in the past. That desire could have easily fuelled her husband's desire for another, younger, adventurous woman. But it was his wife who was in Manhattan on that blustery day. It was his wife who collided with the handsome, adventurous bookseller who put temptation in her way. Temptation that she found irresistible.
The movie reminds us that, to live happily ever after as a married couple, we are asked to observe fidelity forever. But forever is a very long time. And that is what is so heartbreaking. True love is divine. This married couple have it. The irony is that we search for it, sometimes all our lives, and when we are fortunate enough to find it, we thank heaven for it. Sad and heartbreaking that, having found it, some stray away from it only to recognise their error when it is much too late. Unfaithful is an uneasy reminder that, like Psyche and Cupid, we can be blessed by the Gods and that we ignore that blessing at our own peril
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