Divorce Italian Style

When watching this film, I didn't really understand the comedy aspect of the movie until a few days after watching it. I realized that the film was very satirical, and very appropriate to the time period that it was produced in. This movie really portrayed the differences in Italian culture versus American culture, which I thought was very intriguing to watch. The whole ideology of honor during that era is very interesting to me; The fact that murdering your significant other for cheating is deemed as more morally correct rather than just getting a divorce is so different from American ideology of honor, divorce, and murder. I also thought the character of Fefe and the way he was perceived on film was very fascinating. Without the movie, a description of Fefe would cause someone to believe that the character was an evil and selfish man, but with the narration and visual aspects of the film, Fefe came off as a sort of 'anti-hero' and I found myself rooting for him, even though he had no redeeming qualities. In summation, Fefe was just a man who hated his wife and loved his cousin, so he plotted the entire movie to kill his wife even though she tried her best to love him and have him love her, but when watching the actual movie, it doesn't come off that way at all. I've always loved the fact that films can portray an idea in so many different ways, and I think that "Divorce Italian Style" is a perfect example of that. Overall, I really enjoyed identifying the major cultural differences in Italian cinema and American cinema through this film.