Naples, Italy.
It was the 1990 World Cup, the game was in full swing, and for Italians who love football, it's like Christmas.
The Aldo family also sat happily watching TV.
The man, Aldo, is a radio announcer, and his wife, Wanda, is a housewife and has a pair of lovely children.
On this day, the whole family had a lively meal, and Aldo was a little worried.
After putting the child to sleep at night, Aldo found his wife and told the truth directly.
He cheated.
Wanda was very sad and very surprised, her husband had never acted abnormally in the past, how could she suddenly confess that she had cheated?
She repeatedly asked Aldo the details of his derailment, when he cheated, who he got along with, and how he cheated.
Aldo was asked a little angry, he said what is the use of caring about these details, this is already a fact, I need more attention and understanding, you can't do this, now you ask so much can you change the facts?
He also tries to resolve the conflict with affection, and Wanda is furious and throws Aldo out of the house.
Wanda was angry, but surprisingly, Aldo never came home again and went straight to her lover's house.
Without a source of livelihood, wanda had to put down her face and begged her husband to come back for the sake of her children.
But Aldo came back a few times, most of the time still living in his lover's house, just not coming back.
Such a complex triangular relationship makes people speechless.
Aldo's relationship with his lover never came to fruition, and in the end the lover could not stand it and drove Aldo out.
In this way, Aldo returned to the family, and this return was decades...
When They were young, Aldo and Wanda always quarreled, fighting to the end over trivial matters, followed by a long cold war.
Later, when Aldo returned, he was silent and avoided quarrels, because as soon as he opened his mouth, he would be greeted with a storm of complaints and accusations.
In old age, the relationship between the two is estranged and cold, and they usually do not speak, because there is no common language at all.
But they still live together, like roommates who have to share a room together.
The two went out together once, and when they returned home, they found that the house was in a mess.
Everything was smashed, the cat was lost, and the nude photos of aldo's lover hidden in the box were lost...
What the hell is going on?
"Marriage Connection"
Laces
Douban 7.4 points
Written by Italians and filmed by Italians, this is a very delicate family story - "I don't love, but I still have to be together".
Husband and wife are tormenting each other in such a loveless marriage.
"Marriage Connection" has a very good story base, adapted from the famous novel "Shoelace" by Italian writer Domenico Starnone.
Couples can't be separated because having children, like shoes and laces, is entangled with each other and can't be separated.
In the original book, it is written to the point -
"For our parents, what binds them together is the bond that allows them to torture each other for the rest of their lives."
The harm caused by bad families is not only the suffering of both husband and wife themselves, but also the children.
Before Aldo's infidelity, the children and their father were intimate and did not say anything.
After Aldo cheated, Wanda and her husband never avoided the children when they quarreled, and also threw things in front of the children.
The children listened to her father's program, and she would turn off the radio.
She even took the children to tear her husband's lover by hand and let the children witness all this in the car.
In a bad marriage, not only are both spouses hurt and exhausted, but the children also suffer everything silently and are hurt even more.
Wanda's anger towards her husband has nowhere to dissipate, and this terrible emotion gradually transforms into a desire to control her children.
In order to keep her husband and force him to accompany her children, she let the children watch the same cartoon over and over again, and they could not eat without watching it.
When Aldo gives her daughter Anna a necklace, Wanda deliberately lies and says that she was chosen by her lover, scaring Anna into confusion.
Anna was already confused about what had happened between her parents, and she said that she wanted to go out with her brother first when the two were arguing, but Wanda insisted that they stay in the house and must listen to the adults' quarrel.
To add to Aldo's guilt, she shouted in front of her children, "Daddy feels like he's serving a prison sentence by staying with us," and then shut herself in the house and refuses to come out.
It wasn't until Anna was so scared that she vomited that Wanda came out of the house.
In Wanda's eyes, the husband is an extremely scumbag and irresponsible scumbag, and all the faults are caused by the husband.
She forced the children to witness the quarrel and let them know what kind of person their father was, so that the punishment came happily.
As for what harm the children might suffer, she didn't care at all.
Such family education is like burying a time bomb in the hearts of children, not knowing when it will explode.
For the children, Aldo is not a good father, and Wanda is not a good mother.
The use of children to bind parents who have no love, parents torture each other makes children suffer deeply, and they will never learn the right way to love.
Unhappy childhood, to use a lifetime to heal.
When her daughter Anna grows up, she refuses to have children and does not want to get married, because she does not want to be like her parents and torment each other all her life.
And the son has long known where his father put his lover's nude photos, knows that his father has always loved his lover deeply, and his resentment against his father has been hidden for more than thirty years, until the end of the outbreak...
A loveless marriage will make the lover an enemy and torture the child for a lifetime.
As one netizen commented particularly well -
The wife is not willing to be the one who leaves in the betrayal of the feelings. The husband is aggrieved that he is not the angry person in the marriage of perfection.
The most sinister thing about this relationship is that it turns her into such an ugly look. The most vicious thing about this marriage is that it pushes him into the abyss of moral indebtedness.
She would go mad at the Latin meaning of the dog's name, and he wouldn't even be angry that the courier girl had cheated her out of money, and what they left the child was a Pandora's box of love.