"They have just met, and they're downing shots on a steamy patio in Bogota as thunder rolls across the sky. She's wearing a white cotton skirt and lace-up top that might look virginal on someone else, but since this is Angelina Jolie, they seem brazenly, I-want-to-rip-them-off-me wanton.
"When she starts undulating to the music, inviting him to dance, she insinuates her voluptuous body around his so provocatively that it makes the viewer's jaw drop. As she slithers like a sly cat, rubbing herself up and down against him, Brad Pitt is mesmerized by lustful anticipation. At this moment he would do anything she told him, even flap his arms, jump off a cliff, and fly.
"Watching the seduction scene in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, a movie Jolie and Pitt filmed while he was still married to Jennifer Aniston, one can't help but think: There is no husband on the planet who could have resisted that woman under those circumstances.
"This is the very definition of a femme fatale. It doesn't matter if the man is married. It doesn't matter if his moral code or his religion or his politics or his job or his government or the last shreds of his common sense warn him not to succumb to her wiles. It doesn't matter if she's his best friends wife, or the crime boss's mistress, or the daughter of a vengeful king. In that moment of choice, he doesn't care what the consequences will be.
"The question is: Yes or no? And with a woman like that, the answer is always yes, even if that choice launches a thousand ships or destroys an empire. No matter what it will cost, the poor guy simply can't help himself."
So ... what do you think? Are you one of those people who would swear that your husband, boyfriend, etc. would be able to resist? Do you truly believe that in that situation, your spouse could really walk away? I wasn't sure what to think, so I read this article aloud to Dave. I wanted to know a man's opinion. After his initial reaction (typical male), in which he thought I was reading him porn and then wanted to promptly go rent the movie (for research purposes), he shockingly agreed it was true. Though he was quick to say it wouldn't be Angelina Jolie for him. He continued his explanation that it isn't the decision at that moment that is the real problem. The problem is letting yourself get into a situation where that scenario even exists - purely circumstantial.
I agreed. I asked around. What would your husband do? Not surprisingly, I got a lot of, "He would never do that." And then I thought to myself, what if I could conduct an experiment. What if I had a friend who would volunteer up her husband? Someone so sure of her relationship that she would allow me to put her husband in a questionable situation and see what happens.
I will be married fourteen years this August. I love Dave. I love our family. I love our life. And as challenging and crazy as it sounds and as much as I trust him - I am not willing to play with that kind of fire.
A woman like that is "the very personification of trouble, and when she fixes him with her hypnotic gaze, the man is toast. By the time it's over, he may lose everything: his reputation, his fortune, his freedom, even his life, all for this moment of glory with her incomparable self. And if he had it to do over again, he wouldn't change a thing."
And yes - I am putting that movie on our to watch list - I am intrigued.
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