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The Bridges Of Madison County. “The brief, illicit love affair between an Iowa housewife and a post-middle-age free-lance photographer is chronicled in this powerful romance based on the best-selling novella by Robert James Waller.”(Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep.)
The titanic. The characters are Jack and Rose and Cal. Jack and Rose are engaged, however, Rose and Cal end up making love inside a car in the ship's cargo hold. (Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet and Billy Zane.)
The first one deals with a cheating housewife and the second, well, if anyone is familiar with the cargo hold of a ship it’s not exactly a romantic settling. Both movies have been considered beautiful love stories, at least by the female persuasion.
Now let’s imagine a story about a married, male office manager and his secretary. He phones home to tell his wife he’ll be working late. The camera switches to the wife in the kitchen preparing dinner and pans the clock on the wall. The scene fades and then returns to show the wife eating alone at the kitchen table and the clock shows an hour has passed. Then the camera switches to the man and his secretary in the back of the warehouse banging away on some crates.
I doubt that movie would receive rave reviews. So, my question is, “Why do stories depicting cheating women get applause when stories of cheating men are scorned?” Is there a war against men?
The titanic. The characters are Jack and Rose and Cal. Jack and Rose are engaged, however, Rose and Cal end up making love inside a car in the ship's cargo hold. (Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet and Billy Zane.)
The first one deals with a cheating housewife and the second, well, if anyone is familiar with the cargo hold of a ship it’s not exactly a romantic settling. Both movies have been considered beautiful love stories, at least by the female persuasion.
Now let’s imagine a story about a married, male office manager and his secretary. He phones home to tell his wife he’ll be working late. The camera switches to the wife in the kitchen preparing dinner and pans the clock on the wall. The scene fades and then returns to show the wife eating alone at the kitchen table and the clock shows an hour has passed. Then the camera switches to the man and his secretary in the back of the warehouse banging away on some crates.
I doubt that movie would receive rave reviews. So, my question is, “Why do stories depicting cheating women get applause when stories of cheating men are scorned?” Is there a war against men?
