we need to kill whoever wanted to make a call to tel aviv.
agnes varda's le boncheur is something entirely unique, especially in terms of the things that happen and the films perspective of them.
a film with a color coat. cheerfull music, colorfull outfits and even the addition of children is suppose to throw you off later when francios ultimately cheats on his wife and events spiral out of control but thats the things, everything appears to be normal but when his wife dies, maybe even supposedly killed herself....the happiness continue's.
the film qeustions what true happiness is and to what end we meet our selfish side. you can never truly make everyone happy but the one who twists and silently destroys someones life gets to live his life further.
he ends up with the person who he cheated on his wife with and she's happy, its a film that also raises the qeustion as to how morally wrong cheating is to a degree but its also a tale of doomed happiness that instructs us to consider what makes us happy and who makes us happy and examine that.
its something i've personally struggled with inside my own family, not the cheating but more so the incapability to do the right thing that could make everyone happy and instead choose to use happiness as a tool for ones despaire, unknowingly or not.
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