In the 1987 film Moonstruck is a story about a woman who succumbs to her desire for true love. This means the kind of love which combines friendship, passion and sacrifice. The friendship is there when she approaches her to be love interest. Her search for the truth and willingness to listen impacts him deeply. Her motivation is only to make things right.
His struggle to move on from a painful life-changing experience is met with her dignity and self-respect. With all her logic and no-nonsense attitude to life she is the perfect antidote for his self-pity. She allows him to take his aggression out on her through love making. This is passion. Although women today often can find themselves in positions of power in this film the female protagonist is ultra-feminine. She understands this about herself and finds power in being receptive.
With no intention to pursue love for romance and passion she is swept off her feet when he pursues her relentlessly. A gentleman, he takes her to the opera where she reasons a make-over befitting and therefore finds herself falling in love naturally. Here we find a reason for love. When two people help each other find the beauty in life all the pain and suffering before then seems to make sense.
Olympia Dukasis stars in this sweet love tale including Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew Nicholas Cage and the wonderful Cher. Incidentally, Dukasis is performing another comedy Vigil at the insatiable American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Enjoy her brilliancy and buy tickets now.
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