Review: ‘Beauty In Trouble’

Melissa:

Along the way she meets an older, handsome, well off gentleman named Evzen Benes (Josef Abrhà ¡m). By meets, I mean that her husband and his friends steal Benes car. Lucky for him, he has a tracker in it that leads police to the thieves, one being Marcela’s husband. Benes is captured by Marcela’s beauty and really wants to help her out. Of course, he is also a genuine, helpful person. He and Marcela start a romance that leaves her with a beautiful place to live, trips to his vineyard, and romantic meals. She is completely taken care of. The only thing that is missing it seems is that she is still sexually attracted to her now ex-husband.

The movie seems to take after the Robert Graves poem “Beauty In Trouble”. It starts…

“Beauty in trouble flees to the good angel, on whom she can rely”

She cannot rely on her husband, or on her living situation with her mother, so she relies on the rich, handsome, worldly man that has come to sweep her and her children to a magical, safe land.

Benes is not just some ignorant man though. When his renters have a sick mother and cannot move, he lets them stay in the house. To repay him, they buy the front yard property that is up for grabs and try to bribe him to either buy it at an elevated rate or to sell the house for well below what it is worth. Once all of this happens, he stands up for himself and throws them out of the house. I think that it was important to have a moment like this so that Benes didn’t appear to be just a pushover.

Throughout the movie you tend to feel sorry for both her and her children, but towards the end you tend to question her. She is given so much, yet she is drawn to her ex husband. It is as if the beauty is drawn to the trouble like a moth to a flame. Instead of just showing the happy ending, they chose to show what can really happen… the reality of it. The only complaint that I have is that the subtitles at the begining are messed up between the credits and the dialogue. This needs some work.

[overall: 4 stars out of 5]