Michele - Assunta Spina's fiancée - is very jealous and quite a criminal: he thinks that Assunta has an affair with another dude, so he inflicts a slashing in her cheek with a knife. Michele is arrested, and his mother accuses angrily Assunta to have ruined her son's life. Wait, what? Who committed the assault (and battery) and who was the victim?
Moreover Assunta develops a sort of Stockholm syndrome, and (thinks that) she still loves her harasser; but, though she lies to the judges trying to save him from the condemnation sentence, the witnesses are too many, and Michele ends up in jail. During the two years of Michele's detention, Assunta realizes that her love for him is fading (it's never too late), and she begins a relationship with another man, Federigo.
When Michele is released from prison and wants to reunite with Assunta, she says to him: "I'm not worthy of you!" (again: what?!). As soon as Michele comes to know about Federigo, he kills him. Assunta lets herself be blamed for the murder. Why? Is she still in love with Michele? Nobody can tell.
I will not condemn all the films in which "the Cavalry charged, and the Indians fell": they are just products of their age (and some of them are great films), but in the present times, when femicide and male chauvinism are far from being lost, I felt that "Assunta Spina" is particularly unapt as a morality model. Apart from that, in any case the film in question is not a big thing, anyway.
Moreover Assunta develops a sort of Stockholm syndrome, and (thinks that) she still loves her harasser; but, though she lies to the judges trying to save him from the condemnation sentence, the witnesses are too many, and Michele ends up in jail. During the two years of Michele's detention, Assunta realizes that her love for him is fading (it's never too late), and she begins a relationship with another man, Federigo.
When Michele is released from prison and wants to reunite with Assunta, she says to him: "I'm not worthy of you!" (again: what?!). As soon as Michele comes to know about Federigo, he kills him. Assunta lets herself be blamed for the murder. Why? Is she still in love with Michele? Nobody can tell.
I will not condemn all the films in which "the Cavalry charged, and the Indians fell": they are just products of their age (and some of them are great films), but in the present times, when femicide and male chauvinism are far from being lost, I felt that "Assunta Spina" is particularly unapt as a morality model. Apart from that, in any case the film in question is not a big thing, anyway.