Sunday 2nd August 2009
by tonieIf you don’t know me, I have high standards for movies (food, music and just about everything else) So you can trust when I say, “I saw a very good movie that was called A Good Woman” Really, it was a very good movie. I know that I find movies set in the 30’s to be interesting, but the fact that there was a twist really made the movie entertaining. I have to warn you that this review is a bit of a spoiler.
It starred Helen Hunt, Scarlet Johanson and.. some other actors. The movie was about a woman in her late thirties, Ms. Erlynne, who seduces married men into taking care of her. Due to the Great Depression, she was running out of prospects in New York, and she decided to relocate to a place where more wealthy people lived and frolicked. The moment she arrived in the seaside port of Italy, so did the gossip about her and how she was a tramp. Wasting no time, she immediately went after a young American man she saw photographed with his newleywed-wife on the society page. From the day Ms. Erlynne met him she had him giving her money. Despite her reputation, she had caught the eye and heart of a wealthy man, Lord Augustus. Meanwhile, Meg, the newlywed wife, was being pursued by a gentleman who guided her to discover that her husband was giving money to and possibly having an affair with the new tramp in town. When Meg decides to throw her marriage away, Ms. Erlynne convinces her to go back to her husband. Then she falsely incriminates herself (even at the cost of her relationship with Lord Augustus) to keep Meg from loosing her husband’s trust and becoming the latest gossip.
This movie was really good because it leaves no loose ends and it’s twist, which is not told here, if you want to know what it is, you’ll have to see the movie.
