"Losing Touch with Reality"
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What You Need To Know:
THE CHAMBERMAID takes the audience on a sensual journey through a married French foundry worker who has a brief, non-sexual encounter with a beautiful chambermaid ready to board the doomed Titanic. Although nothing happens between the worker and the chambermaid, the people in his hometown encourage him to invent a fictional story of a sexual liaison. Horty has a difficulty convincing his wife that he made up the story. As his dramatic storytelling continues, it becomes more difficult to separate reality from fantasy, and the story takes some interesting twists.
THE CHAMBERMAID conveys the message that it is human nature to fantasize and that the danger lies in the obsession with fantasy, which creates the potential for losing touch with reality and beginning to live in a fantasy world that is not realistic. Its plot development is confusing at times and spends excessive time focusing on Horty’s fantasy and imagination and on the people’s need to be entertained with stories about adulterous sex. It was refreshing to see, however, that the director did not feel the need to portray nudity during his sensual scenes. That still does not excuse the movie’s inability to bring a stronger moral viewpoint to bear regarding this subject matter
Content:
(Pa, LL, SS, AA) Romantic worldview involving a man’s fantasy about a chambermaid whom he met briefly; 19 obscenities, 1 profanity & phoney erotic stories told; no violence; mild fantasy scenes of adulterous fornication; no nudity; a lot of drinking; and, lying, telling erotic stories to a titillated audience & revenge by husband on wife implied.
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THE CHAMBERMAID takes the audience on a sensual journey through a married French foundry worker who has a brief, non-sexual encounter with a beautiful chambermaid ready to board the doomed Titanic. Although nothing happens between the worker and the chambermaid, the people in his hometown encourage him to invent a fictional story of a sexual liaison. Horty has a difficulty convincing his wife that he made up the story. As his dramatic storytelling continues, it becomes more difficult to separate reality from fantasy, and the story takes some interesting twists.
THE CHAMBERMAID conveys the message that it is human nature to fantasize and that the danger lies in the obsession with fantasy, which creates the potential for losing touch with reality and beginning to live in a fantasy world that is not realistic. Its plot development is confusing at times and spends excessive time focusing on Horty’s fantasy and imagination and on the people’s need to be entertained with stories about adulterous sex. It was refreshing to see, however, that the director did not feel the need to portray nudity during his sensual scenes. That still does not excuse the movie’s inability to bring a stronger moral viewpoint to bear regarding this subject matter.
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