Movie pissed me off (MAJOR SUPREME SPOILERS)
First off, I like bleak films, some of them are my most favorite. BUT one character in particular I feel was simply used as a ploy to tug at the audience's heartstrings. And that character was Emile (Orlando).
We see Ewa suffer so much in an unknown world, feel helpless when abandoned by her family and be put in a horrifying position just to get her sister out.
Emile's character was not needed. In he comes, all magical hoping to be someone to whisk her away to some sort of life better than being a woman of the night.
He's nice and promises to take her sister out, go to california, in this film, he looks like an angel in my opinion not really romancing Ewa because I felt she just liked him but not in a romantic way but romancing the audience more. His purpose was solely to romance us or me, the viewer. His sudden death was just like killing her savior because the director wanted Ewa and the audience to suffer but the audience to suffer a little bit more.
Some on here have said that he would've probably used her and dumped her but we are never certain because we never know if he would've kept his promise and if he had, it probably would've been a better life than being a prostitute. What did happen to that seamstress job she was promised anyway by Bruno?
Some on here have said he showed his true colors at the mind telling scene but I felt he only used her for the magic trick to get to know her because he knew nothing about her at all only hellos and goodbyes because Bruno kept her from him. I felt he genuinely felt something for her, possibly love but I feel some on this board don't believe that that was a possibility in that time or it doesn't exist and the world is full of horrible men.
The director should've cut Emile and have a priest or someone else save her instead of an audience romancer. Or none at all to show abuse women had to deal with in the 1920s.