The Other Man (1970 TV Movie)
5/10
Harma is a biatch!
3 March 2020
Warning: Spoilers
After reading some of the reviews and their emphasis on the story line which is somewhat confusing at first. I take a different view of this story. I see it as a more raw tale about a modern woman cheating on her trusting husband whom worshiped the ground she walked on. Early on, you see his wife having dinner with her monogamous loving husband while her thoughts are basically ridiculing her cuckold husband about her infidelity. She is almost rubbing her promiscuity into him about how proud she was keeping her cheating a secret and with the help of her employees. Meanwhile she was trying to get him to admit if he was looking to have an affair, Next we see her leaving for a trip to Milan, where she probably went to be with her lover again.

This is when the confusing time line jumps to after her death and back at their house when he is getting into an argument with his daughter on what to do with her belongings and this is where the plot reveals her infidelity with a phone call and his access to her laptop. To me, this is where the KARMA comes into play. How properly was her death a reward for her deceptions? We see her lover recount his persistent pursuit of her and how she finally caved in in front of all her factory employees, unless it was another of Ralph's BS story.

Another big slap in her husband's face was the guy she hooked up with. He didn't whine and dine her. He was a pauper, a janitor and he bragged about how she paid is back due bills.she paid for everything including his bills.

This part of the plot made no sense to me, which most other reviewers missed. Her refusal to have surgery to possibly stop the cancer progression. We see her doctor explaining to her husband she declined the mastectomy, I assumed she was dying from breast cancer. Both the doctor and her husband agreed about her vanity by her refusal to have the surgery, was to keep her body intact to her death, even do, in the end, breast cancer ravished the body. My take on her refusal to pass on the surgery was due to her eventual guilt with her betrayal to her loving husband. Hence, Karma is a biatch!
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