🌿So, we are approaching the final analysis of the film Effie" (2014). How did the relationship of a couple develop in a narcissistic family? Effie, as a lover, is not allowed to experience or express feelings and opinions that contradict the needs of her husband. For all her giftedness and talent praising “pure art” - Ruskin, deep down in his soul, feels envy and fear for the Woman. He can only imagine his beloved as an ideal - which is how he conquered her during the courtship period, but in practice it is an ideal devoid of sexuality. There are no shades here: for him. she is either a “sinless mother” or Madonna, or a sexually liberated and accessible “dirty mother” or a whore. The episode of meeting the Italian count is indicative here, where in the scenes Effie is shown through his eyes - as an object of desire; it is no coincidence that the costume designers dress her here. in a red cloak. The girl experiences moral torment from the inability to realize her awakened (which is quite natural) sensuality and still hoping for a response, an “awakening” of her husband. She steadfastly stays on the edge of her moral principles; in fact, this is a plea for a normal marriage, but the husband reacts to all this subtle and natural, normal-sensual thing with undisguised disgust. After all, he can only experience tender romantic feelings for a woman who does not attract him sexually. 🌿The film very symbolically conveys a moment that is a key experience for Ruskin, the moment of choice between mother and wife - Effie offers her gift of love in the form of a rose, which she picks from his mother’s garden and pins to the lapel of his coat. The camera catches Ruskin's face contorting painfully and he fearfully looks back at the house to see if his mother saw that another woman touched her roses. This is precisely what leads Effie to retreat into illness, and then into external detachment and insensibility. But a trip to Scotland changes everything, where Ruskin invites the Pre-Raphaelite artist Millais to paint his (well, not his wife, really😉) portrait. John Millais (or Millais) wins her over first of all by showing humanity—sympathy and interest not even in herself, but in the people who are dear to her. He asks how her mother is feeling after losing her child. And after this question, which shows not only the empathy and simple human involvement of the interlocutor and his attention to Effie’s family, but also indirectly touches on the important topic of Effie’s own motherhood, which she was also denied in this marriage, we see the slow story of her awakening as if from a heavy, painful sleep.🌿Among other things, the story of emerging new relationships and new healthy love is also a story about courage - the courage of a woman and the courage of a man to go through a difficult path to be together. After all, a divorce will require Effie to have remarkable courage to publicly declare that side of life that could not be mentioned not only in society, but also in the conversation between spouses.🌿 Subsequently, in her marriage to Millet, Effie has 8 children - she managed to realize her dream of a full-fledged family into life, and Effie herself will be the muse of his work and appear in the images of his paintings, but not as an inaccessible fleeing nymph or a frozen marble sculpture from Ruskin’s imagination, but as a female muse who can be hugged. In the photo are stills from the film and a fragment of Millet’s painting " Huguenot on St. Bartholomew's Day" (take a closer look at the female image).