I have not read the original story so take that in mind with my view - I suspect that the movie adaptation missed out on a lot that would explain his behavior and put the main character in a more favorable light. This movie is well shot and very well acted - I can't wait to see Ciaran as Caesar in Rome. I consider myself far from the moral majority but criminy! - the man leaves his wife with no adequate pretense at all and subjects his child to a vagabond life and forces him to multiple major lies. His first infidelity is the cause of two parent's deaths (the movie is awful in trying to place the blame on his wife). Then he marries a second time while still married to his first wife and has a child by his second wife's sister. Again, I'm no moral prude but this guy has no respect for other people. He really is a hateful man - his only quality is his good looks. The movie and all the characters therein (like his second wife) eventually all put him on a pedestal. Maybe his actions all seem juicy to some people, I don't know. If the movie had tried to paint him in an unfavorable light I probably would have enjoyed it a lot more but having to submit myself to its worship of this man - is something I couldn't stomach.
Review of The Man Who Cried
