Day 1 Perceval

Perceval seems really slow. He doesn't pay much attention and doesn't even care about is being said. He doesn't grasp the importance of what his mother is telling him. She is telling him her history and therefore his too, but he dismisses her as if she was telling what was for dinner. He doesn't have any empathy and that can get him into trouble later on. He doesn't listen unless its what her wants to hear. As with the episode with the knights, he completely ignores what they have to say so that he can learn what he wants to know. He is a bad example of what a knight can be. He's too interested in having his needs be met and not seeing the consequences of his actions. His mother is the only person he has. She sheltered and protected from the life that she did not want for him ( maybe a little too much), but she meant well. She is weeping and begging him not to go and finally falls over, but he still continues on his way as if she had been waving at him happily and commending him to God. H should not have left the way he did; he is selfish.

The Film

This movie is from Matthieu's POV because this is his interpretation of events. He is the protagonist, the hero of the story. Your really start to feel for him. I don't think that he loved Conchita, he's more obsessed with her, the way Calisto is obsessed with Melibea. But Conchita is playing with him, and that's what's unacceptable. The story makes the most sense from Mattieu's POV. I'm convinced that Conchita is insane (though I enjoy her greatly). But because one the people he was telling the story to was a psychologist, maybe Mattieu is too. He does go off with her in the end, which doesn't say much about the state of his mental faculties or Conchita's. They both need a good long sit down with a psychologist.

I think that terrorism is always there in the film because it foreshadows the destruction of Mattieu and Conchita. Terrorists are fanatical, and prone to terrorize. This movie is about a man who is obsessed with this woman. She does great taking a page out of the Anne Boleyn handbook to keep him with her for so long. The obsession and fanaticism that terrorists have destroy everything in their paths. Mattieu and Conchita are, in a sense, terrorists. They destroy each other. First off, they become entirely different people. Mattieu doesn't seem like that kind of guy who would be involved in a domestic violence dispute. And although I'm not sure how nice of girl Conchita actually is, she feels that he is trying to own her so she does something dramatic. She tries to prove to him that he doesn't own her. Mattieu is doing everything he can to please her. This is isn't working; they're never going to work out the way they are. It seems like death is the only way out for both of them. For a terrorist, sometimes death is the only way out. I think that it is safe to say that they are the most dysfunctional couple ever.