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Everyone says The Taming of the Shrew is funny....but I wasn't feeling it when I saw it for the first time a couple of days ago. That man is terrifying and downright creepy. I feel so terrible for the character Kate, especially when he is always touching her and looking at her in an uncomfortable way. She obviously has no desire for him and yet no one seems to care. And it's not like anyone besides him even knows how unhappy she is because of how he manipulates her.
Don't even get me started on the scene when they are in his bedroom. She looks like she feels so violated when he touches her. And when she tries to defend herself from him with a pan, he begins one of his streaks of madness.
One might try to defend him because he seems to try to make it up to her by asking how she fares, but that doesn't even begin to make up for what he has done. What bothers me even more is that he believes that he can win her over with jewelry and finery. And when he brings her back to her father's house, he tries to get her to kiss her in front of a crowd of people and when she tries to move away, he keeps a hold of her hand so she can't leave him.
I cringe at how Kate's attitude changes at the end of the movie. A wife does not need to be obedient. She becomes so subservient in the end and it disgusts me. The thought that her husband "won the battle" makes it seem as though a man, no matter what a woman thinks of him, can win a woman over by pure force and disregard of her feelings. To all the guys out there: THIS IS NOT TRUE.
***I realize that equality in a marriage was not exactly common in the setting of this movie. However, watching this movie with today's expectations for a marriage, I was pretty disturbed.
Don't even get me started on the scene when they are in his bedroom. She looks like she feels so violated when he touches her. And when she tries to defend herself from him with a pan, he begins one of his streaks of madness.
One might try to defend him because he seems to try to make it up to her by asking how she fares, but that doesn't even begin to make up for what he has done. What bothers me even more is that he believes that he can win her over with jewelry and finery. And when he brings her back to her father's house, he tries to get her to kiss her in front of a crowd of people and when she tries to move away, he keeps a hold of her hand so she can't leave him.
I cringe at how Kate's attitude changes at the end of the movie. A wife does not need to be obedient. She becomes so subservient in the end and it disgusts me. The thought that her husband "won the battle" makes it seem as though a man, no matter what a woman thinks of him, can win a woman over by pure force and disregard of her feelings. To all the guys out there: THIS IS NOT TRUE.
***I realize that equality in a marriage was not exactly common in the setting of this movie. However, watching this movie with today's expectations for a marriage, I was pretty disturbed.
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