Antares (2004)

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Each story involves a couple and a third party, none are ‘whiter than white’. But there are important differences, not least in how we view and judge them. Using ‘truth’ as a yardstick gets us nowhere as none of them are particularly honest – although the most violent person (the abusive husband of the last story) is probably the least dishonest. In the first couple (a white collar family, listening to Schubert, raising a teenage daughter with love and care), we somehow feel that the infidelity is less ‘wrong’ than in the later example. It might even be the safety valve, without which the couple (who communicate politely but not very effectively) would have reached breaking point, hurting everyone but especially the child. In the second example, both partners are trying to control the other and we instinctively feel they are more selfish and less sympathetic. A yardstick becomes, who is hurt? What was the intention to hurt or nurture? Their motives to each other seem shallower, their methods more devious, they are less likable. They are also less interesting – given that this film will appeal to a highbrow audience, do we judge them worse because they are poor and less intelligent? But then we see the third scenario – a brutal, dangerous husband. Can the wife be blamed that she has ‘moved on’? the husband is externally convincing, but we learn he has raped and beaten her and she is in fear of him. His ‘reality’ is a different one to hers. Compared to the billboard-poster, who seemed such a reprobate a minute ago, he is a monster.