SPOILERS probably ahead.
I think this is one of the darkest movies I've ever seen. The review that I read beforehand talked of an "unexpected" ending, and like most people I imagine, I was expecting Zaza to do something drastic. Perhaps what he did do was the most drastic thing.
Much can be made of the fact of the conflict of tradition vs. youth or whatever, but really the movie is about a young person unable to believe in his own feelings and ideas. Never does Zaza try to insist that this is the woman he wants. To his parents, the woman he loves is just someone he is screwing around with, because he never tells them differently. Even at 31, working on a doctorate, he is just a spoiled child.
Others responded that they simply didn't identify with Zaza or that he was too "simple". What could be more complex than someone who lets what he loves be taken away from him? He unlocks the door to his lover's building so that his parents can come up and destroy his relationship.
This is all too real, all too human.
I find the ending ingenious. Instead of a normal, fantastic movie ending, we are hit with reality.
I think this is one of the darkest movies I've ever seen. The review that I read beforehand talked of an "unexpected" ending, and like most people I imagine, I was expecting Zaza to do something drastic. Perhaps what he did do was the most drastic thing.
Much can be made of the fact of the conflict of tradition vs. youth or whatever, but really the movie is about a young person unable to believe in his own feelings and ideas. Never does Zaza try to insist that this is the woman he wants. To his parents, the woman he loves is just someone he is screwing around with, because he never tells them differently. Even at 31, working on a doctorate, he is just a spoiled child.
Others responded that they simply didn't identify with Zaza or that he was too "simple". What could be more complex than someone who lets what he loves be taken away from him? He unlocks the door to his lover's building so that his parents can come up and destroy his relationship.
This is all too real, all too human.
I find the ending ingenious. Instead of a normal, fantastic movie ending, we are hit with reality.