Idle Wives 1916
Some spectators, without any relation between them, find themselves in a cinema where they are seen in a film called Life’s Mirror : they are portrayed – as in a mirror – their life. This way they can follow the developments of their hypothetical future that will be realized if they follow to the end the path they are following with their behavior. Molly, a girl who has escaped to the cinema with her boyfriend despite the ban on parents, is seen in a possible future abandoned by her boyfriend, after he announced that she was pregnant. The result will be that, returned home repentant, will apologize to parents for the escape.In another case, Anne Wall, wife who is in the room for having followed her husband who neglects her for a new “girlfriend”, decides to leave him and her children. At the end of the film, however, the husband will choose to return home with her. A worker, his wife and children, they are sad for their miserable conditions of life: the film makes them hope for a better future, because they choose to look with optimism to the future. A young man without many scruples, however, will repent.
