Dr. Walter Fane (Edward Norton) is an awkward British bacteriologist who arranges a marriage with the daughter of an aristocratic family. Kitty (Naomi Watts) is the youngest of the families daughters and does not want to marry for love rather than social class. It is the 1920's and Kitty loses that argument. In an attempt at trying to be free she cheats on Walter, who then takes his revenge by further controlling her, and they set off for the out parts of China into a cholera epidemic. This tension continues to develop as they realize that they want different things. But as they continue to actually start to care for the community that they are forced into, they realize that they have more in common than they thought. The tagline of the film says it best: "Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people." This film does a good job of showing this journey and the struggle and self sacrifice required to connect, forgive, and love another person.
May 09, 2007
The Painted Veil - 6
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sorry, kitty (watts) is the older of the sisters and her mom didn't want to see her not getting married first, and worse, becoming an old maid.
My bad. The other sister just looked older, so I assumed. The dialogue seemed to allude to her being a rebellious younger daughter.
yeah naomi watts looks young. in the novel, it says, in chapter 10 "then came the announcement of doris's engagement to geoffrey dennison. doris, at eighteen, was making quite a suitable marriage, and she (kitty) was twenty-five and single. supoosing she did not marry at all?" kitty was 7 years older than doris, believe it or not.
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