After seeing the high ratings, I was upset to see the kind of movie this turned out to be. My guess is that it might have appealed more to me if I had a spouse who hurt me AND if I were the kind of person who would go to any length to see that person destroyed.
Now, this is not to say that cheating is justified, especially by someone in high office. We hate swinishness in successful people. Swiny people should not succeed and definitely should not rule a country, and they should pay for their crimes, but not if someone has to commit yet other crimes to make this punishment come about. In reality, crimes will eventually get exposed, all crimes, and anyone who commits a crime should get exposed.
The protagonist in the movie did not manipulate and scheme her husband's destruction because she cared for her country. Her only reason was personal spite. She did not try to expose any crimes or amorality. She simply relentlessly schemed to destroy her husband by creating falsehoods and entrapping people into situations they were not aware had illegitimate implications that she herself designed. That is not anything close to honorable. Not by any stretch of the imagination.
People do bad things sometimes, but to intentionally deceive and plan their destruction with illegal and amoral means is to stoop down even lower than the perpetrator of the original bad deed and is just plain against anything I deem moral behavior.
There is such a thing as the high road, and honesty and communication would achieve much better effects, especially in personal relationships. If one really cared, one would figure out how to do this. But if one doesn't take time and care to figure out how to do this but instead just plans destruction, well that is just weak or lazy or just plain impulsive and psychologically and morally problematic. In real life, behaving in this antisocial manner would inevitably bring destruction on others and oneself and cast a pall on any part of society exposed to such a amorality.
It is a very Machavellian way to justify dishonesty and malice. The end does not justify the means. To do a dirty deed makes one filthy. In the end the protagonist of the movie filled me with disgust and pity for the level of self-deception required of her to feel good about herself after the things she did. I think this same self-deception must also exist in the producers of this movie, who sympathize with the protagonist. What a sad spectacle.
Now, this is not to say that cheating is justified, especially by someone in high office. We hate swinishness in successful people. Swiny people should not succeed and definitely should not rule a country, and they should pay for their crimes, but not if someone has to commit yet other crimes to make this punishment come about. In reality, crimes will eventually get exposed, all crimes, and anyone who commits a crime should get exposed.
The protagonist in the movie did not manipulate and scheme her husband's destruction because she cared for her country. Her only reason was personal spite. She did not try to expose any crimes or amorality. She simply relentlessly schemed to destroy her husband by creating falsehoods and entrapping people into situations they were not aware had illegitimate implications that she herself designed. That is not anything close to honorable. Not by any stretch of the imagination.
People do bad things sometimes, but to intentionally deceive and plan their destruction with illegal and amoral means is to stoop down even lower than the perpetrator of the original bad deed and is just plain against anything I deem moral behavior.
There is such a thing as the high road, and honesty and communication would achieve much better effects, especially in personal relationships. If one really cared, one would figure out how to do this. But if one doesn't take time and care to figure out how to do this but instead just plans destruction, well that is just weak or lazy or just plain impulsive and psychologically and morally problematic. In real life, behaving in this antisocial manner would inevitably bring destruction on others and oneself and cast a pall on any part of society exposed to such a amorality.
It is a very Machavellian way to justify dishonesty and malice. The end does not justify the means. To do a dirty deed makes one filthy. In the end the protagonist of the movie filled me with disgust and pity for the level of self-deception required of her to feel good about herself after the things she did. I think this same self-deception must also exist in the producers of this movie, who sympathize with the protagonist. What a sad spectacle.