The influence of Celestina is seen all throughout the movie, the plot can almost be broken down the same exact way as the play. The guy couldn’t get the girl and he spent whatever money necessary to get her love. The only thing she sought was his love but he ruined it with his overbearing habits and purchases her love attitude. Paying her mom to bring her to his house and buying her a house in order to be with her, these are the types of things that Calisto would do to gain Melbias love. The theme of her mother not wanting her to work because she believed “Girls lose their honor by listing to women, not by listening to men”. This quote goes with a major theme in Celestina, the fact that Celestina was able to manipulate women for men because she understood the way women worked, women corrupting other women. There are many things prevalent in the movie that are just as common in Celestina. There are defiantly influences from Celestina in the film.
The final moments of the movie were very surprising and had a very different ending that I expected. The whole movie was set in a flash back so it was hard to decipher the reality from the history of the movie. The end felt like a flash and it ended tragically just as Celestina did. The scene with the man staring at the woman’s hands the same way he did as he first met Conchita, implying many different things about the character of Matthieu making me even doubt his love for Conchita.
