The protagonist one is probably supposed to like and care for - the movie didn't work. And that's where I am on this.
*** SPOILERS THROUGHOUT BELOW ***
In order to arrive at a hospital well after the time a woman for whom he doesn't care is to have a baby he inseminated nine months before, our man - an extremely highly paid executive, driving a fabulously expensive car, decides to abaondon his job at the climactic moment in his industry's European history (the greatest, largest concrete pour (non-military, non-nuclear) in Europe in centuries of construction).
Yes, he knows this will cause him to be terminated - and his high paying job will very unlikely ever return - and thus the lives of his wife and children and any future child - will truly be blighted -
he knows that explaining this infidelity to his wife will end his marriage and live-in fatherhood for his two sons
and he knows that he cannot be there for the birth of this illegitimate child -he hasn't time to get there. And he makes sure the woman knows he has no fond feeling whatever for her or the child (indeed, he continues to tell her he does NOT love her) tells the hospital he is NOT the next of kin, and tells his wife that the woman is "no European painting" and describes the mother continuously (at 43) as VERY old.
And so why does he want to ruin his life - for the possibility that this woman may allow him into her room to wave hello before he drives back to a motel in London
Apparently it's only so that he can feel morally superior to his father - who apparently often abandoned the family.
But he says repeatedly that he's going to abandon his new child and the woman who just gave birth - the NEXT DAY!
Obviously the hospital would name the child his last name if the mother says they are in agreement.
So the only explanation of the man's action is suicidal.
This movie makes no sense.
*** SPOILERS THROUGHOUT BELOW ***
In order to arrive at a hospital well after the time a woman for whom he doesn't care is to have a baby he inseminated nine months before, our man - an extremely highly paid executive, driving a fabulously expensive car, decides to abaondon his job at the climactic moment in his industry's European history (the greatest, largest concrete pour (non-military, non-nuclear) in Europe in centuries of construction).
Yes, he knows this will cause him to be terminated - and his high paying job will very unlikely ever return - and thus the lives of his wife and children and any future child - will truly be blighted -
he knows that explaining this infidelity to his wife will end his marriage and live-in fatherhood for his two sons
and he knows that he cannot be there for the birth of this illegitimate child -he hasn't time to get there. And he makes sure the woman knows he has no fond feeling whatever for her or the child (indeed, he continues to tell her he does NOT love her) tells the hospital he is NOT the next of kin, and tells his wife that the woman is "no European painting" and describes the mother continuously (at 43) as VERY old.
And so why does he want to ruin his life - for the possibility that this woman may allow him into her room to wave hello before he drives back to a motel in London
Apparently it's only so that he can feel morally superior to his father - who apparently often abandoned the family.
But he says repeatedly that he's going to abandon his new child and the woman who just gave birth - the NEXT DAY!
Obviously the hospital would name the child his last name if the mother says they are in agreement.
So the only explanation of the man's action is suicidal.
This movie makes no sense.