If true love comes when you already committed to another person who gives you all the security but that love you have been
dreaming about, will you pick a new choice?
Francesca was an Italian woman married and migrated to Iowa with Richard, who was a soldier and then back in the country as a farmer. After more than 15 years of marriage with two children, living in the country as a housewife and farmer, Francesca then encountered Robert Kincaid, a photographer who happened to drop by to ask for direction to Roseman Bridge.
The appearing of Robert has stirred up Francesca’s memory on her dreams as a girl – to look sweet, romantic and erotic, and be loved just like a girl. Robert, who gave her all the attention and treated her just like what she has dreamt about made her fallen for him deeply.
But when Robert requested her to leave the family and go away with him, the strong sense of responsibility to her family has made her decided to keep her love to Robert in her heart but stay back with her family and love her husband ‘quietly’.
Out of the dreams Francesca once had that came true in somehow a wrong moment of life, I feel more intensified by the decision she has made that leads me to see the sacrifice a woman gives to her family. This scarify is not merely devoting her life to her family, but even her heart (to love) that she can’t follow.
Francesca’s love is beyond the love she has for Richard, the photographer or her family alone. It is the most powerful and respectable love she gave to everyone in her life, that everyone be loved, and not be hurt.
However, Francesca has sacrificed herself for the happiness of the rest. Though Robert Kincaid finally didn’t get to stay with her, his one quotation has shown that he just understood how Francesca felt inside. And also because of how deep he could feel her soul, you can be convinced that he would never regret to have met her and not to be with her in the end.
Robert Kincaid said, 'The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out, but I'm glad I had them.’