To ward off the politically correct people who spout IT DOESNT MATTER when anything is questioned concerning homosexuality or transgender issues, I will ask:
If Albert WASNT a woman, wouldn't that blond hottie be WAY TOO YOUNG for him?
We know how old she's supposed to be? We know how old Albert is supposed to be?
Just a reminder, in those days 15 year olds were routinely married off to older men. It was commonplace, even in the early 20th century.
albert looks around 60, the girl looks around 18.
so you think the writers had the history of young girls marrying old men in mind?
i think that theory is a bit weak. young girls married men who had money or property in those days, not pale faced servants.
to me, it seems like another hollywood fantasy.
that's not a bad thing, but i think the girl is way too young for Ghost Stick.
Um, just a question, in the trailers I heard something about marriage between the two of them...Uh...age aside and assuming the wedding took place...what was Albert going to do on the wedding night?
shareShe/He didn't know. There was a scene where Albert was talking to himself and debating whether or not to tell her before the wedding or after... then he came up with the possibility that she might call the police.
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Actually they did. A lot of times young girls in service who were carrying illegitimate children married some of the older men they worked with for protection. Older servants often had more money than the younger ones and would sometimes take a young wife and leave service to own a shop and raise a family.
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There is no doubt that the age gap is a little ridiculous, but then I don't think Albert was originally conceived as being as old as Close ended up being by the time she got to make the movie, and it was obviously her passion project that she had no intention of handing over to anybody else to play.
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There is an age gap but I think it was normal for young girls to marry older men.
shareWithin the movie Albert was supposed to be in his/her mid 40's. She was gang raped at 14 and it appears that when the story takes place 30 years have passed.
She makes a statement about working and saving for that amount of time.
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"Yes" to Yes. Albert is supposed to be in his/her mid-40s. (The Irish don't always age well.) At one point in the 20th century, the average age of marriage in Ireland was so old that people began to worry about "the vanishing Irish."
shareNot just Ireland.
I recently learned that back on the family hof in northern Germany, the Inheritor was often made to wait until his father died before marriage, creating larger generational gaps and the current resident is elderly (still alive as of a year ago when my sister visited) and has no heirs. A visit from my great-grandmother's brother post-WW2 notes the then-current head of the family had a wife, son and two daughters. Simple math tells me they had children in their late 40s, and the son is the current elderly resident, but since they were not mentioned by name, I have no idea if his sisters are alive or had children. We wouldn't even stand to inherit the hof, as it has already been turned into a museum and senior facility, not to mention there are other cousins here who would have first claim.
Ironically, that was mom's side, and dad's dad is the one who waited to have kids in his mid-40s, being 51 when dad was born and another several years later. We actually went to school with the youngest son of one of our cousins, and he was still ahead of us!
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And life as a servant isn;t good for the body. Servants of that time period were probably malnourished as children, went to work before their teenage years, spent years performing arduous labor in all weather and with few sick days, and had much worse food than their masters. They would have had few things to be happy about. A Victorian servant must have looked well past 50 by the time he was in his mid-30s. The only reason that Helen and her boyfriend look so good is because they are still very young.
shareOlder men marrying younger women was THE thing back in the day and I mean THE thing. It happened so often that no one batted an eye at it. Women would be considered odd if they waited too long to get married off.
shareIf Albert WASNT a woman, wouldn't that blond hottie be WAY TOO YOUNG for him?Let me answer your question with a question: wasn't it hot when Helen leaned over and kissed Albert at the park bench?!
It really pissed me off that this old lady was trying to trick a young girl into marrying her.
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