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Plus at the end, she WAS willing to run away with Tom Hanks, but he choose not to let her do it because he knew it was morally wrong, she was a married woman, he was not an adultery. Also wasn't it like over 10 years since he was on that island, she that would be wrong to leave a good man who gave you years of love just because an old love came back into your life.
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That movie was romantic, but at the end of the day, it "somewhat" justified adultery. Or at the very least it promoted choosing fantasy (what if) over reality. Remember she never married Tom Hanks, they just dated, she dated and married the new guy.
Huh...that is not what I took from the movie at all! I felt that Tom Hanks decided not to let her leave her husband because he was no longer the same person he was before. He would never be the same again. So she would be leaving him for a memory, not reality.
As I recall, adultery didn't factor in at all. It was never discussed as adultery. It was implied, since these were good, responsible people, that she could have tried to extract herself from her marriage in the kindest way possible. As in, legally divorce her husband, do whatever was going to be necessary for her kids, and then reestablish a relationship with Tom Hanks. There was no promotion of the fantasy (are you envisioning her just tumbling into bed with him? ). Only a depiction of the wrenching choice they both had to make.
They were not married, as I recall, he had the engagement ring in his pocket when the plane went down. (It's been a long time since I've seen it, so it is quite possible I'm not remembering it correctly!)
your post was not at all antagonistic!
As for me, I've never been in love to that degree. I would reclaim my children, whatever the cost. But I've never loved a man enough to undo 10 years to get him back in my life.
Now, If given a choice between any other man in the world and Tom Hanks? I'd choose Tom Hanks every time.
I know. Poor fellow doesn't seem to have much luck where it comes to transportation. He did seem to do okay on foot in Forest Gump.
I would not leave my spouse and children. I would have a terrible sense of tragedy but I am something of a fatalist. Things have happened the way they happened, I probably could not have changed them, and now, my life is the way it is. There is no going back without ripping everyone else apart in such a situation and even then, you have both, necessarily, changed.
I know. Poor fellow doesn't seem to have much luck where it comes to transportation. He did seem to do okay on foot in Forest Gump.
I would not leave my spouse and children. I would have a terrible sense of tragedy but I am something of a fatalist. Things have happened the way they happened, I probably could not have changed them, and now, my life is the way it is. There is no going back without ripping everyone else apart in such a situation and even then, you have both, necessarily, changed.
They are great 90 minute movies stretched out over three hours.
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LMAO... 
