Did the father cheat on his wife in Happy End?
In Happy End (2017), the daughter claims that her father "doesn't love his wife and doesn't love her too since she found out he is cheating on his wife" and the father seems to not "deny that definitely" and "admits that silently".
In the film, every detail seems to show that he is a good father that loves his daughter. And the daughter may just have illusions about him cheating on her mother since once she saw him talking to someone on the phone on the beach.
Was he actually cheating on his wife? What is the intention of the screen play?
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According to Wikipedia's plot summary:
After Eve's mother falls into a coma as a result of the poisoning, which everyone believes was a suicide attempt, Eve is taken in by Thomas, her estranged father. She hacks into his computer and finds many e-mails and chat messages which show that he has a sadomasochistic sexual relationship with a female musician.
The screenplay contains the text of some of these emails.
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Last time I saw this movie I thought the messaging on the Windows notebook is the daughter texting her friends about her new life in the new house. And there is a scene at around 0:40:25-0:40:40 of the user of the notebook whose face look like deformed and I thought it is the daughter's face under special lighting and covered partially by hair.
Now I found that the face is in fact the musician that later performened on her grandfather's birthday party (1:12:40). So she should be the woman.
But there is more problem, according to the screen play link above
The Gambist (35) Thomas' mistress. Although invisible, merely evoked or alluded to, the Gambist is, in this story, a bolt of eroticism. Thomas is crazy about her body.
Why is she "invisible"? The possible answer is the film is not exactly the same with the screenplay.
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