So far the in class film, Trust, has had a few connections to the last novel we have read, The Stranger. But so far the biggest connection between the two, happened when the main character of Trust, Maria Coughlin, is at the abortion clinic and is having the conversation with the nurse. Here she comes to the realization that the only reason her boyfriend likes her is because of her physical aspects. In the film she wistfully said,"My ass, my breast..." and continues to list off her used body parts.
The main connection i see between this scene and The Stranger, is the theme of the importance of the physical world. Maria's boyfriend only focuses on the physical aspect of her, and is the only reason why he is interested in her. He only wanted a physical relationship and nothing more. Which can be directly compared to Meursault's relationship with Marie. Meursault is only interested physically with Marie, which can be inferred by the amount of public kisses, and coitus they have. We also can tell from Meursault's indifference to get married to Marie. So both men, express indifference to emotional part of the relationship, but both will gladly take part in the physical part of a relationship.
That is a very interesting connection. As I do agree that those two do correlate in same ways, I would have to partially disagree. Maria's boyfriend is only interested in her for her body, yes, but I find that Meursault does actually want more from his relationship with Marie then just sex, it's just that he has a poor way of showing that. He struggles in expressing his emotions, but I think that deep down he does really love Marie, on the contrary to Maria and her boyfriend.
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This is a really unique idea about the two stories. I agree that Meursault and Anthony do connect in that way. They were both only in it for the physical aspect, and you could have replaced Marie and Maria with any other girl and it wouldn't have made a difference to them.
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