A room with a view

Lucy Honeychurch is a middle class woman at the 20th century surrounded by a culture in change, specially for the women.Lucy comes out to Florence, Italy for the first time at the beginning of a revolutionizing era where women were beginning to demand more independency and leadership. Lucy’s older cousin Charlotte, who travels with her to Florence is more of an old-fashioned lady. In this movie we can see clearly how the culture was screaming for a change from one generation to another.Lucy falls in love with this man during the trip to Italy but is something that would not look good under the eyes of the people who surrounded her. The culture by that time was very strict when it came to women and and who they were going to be with. Usually the woman didn’t have much of a choice for the man they married because the family will search the most appropriate in accordance with their needs. The movie clearly shows us the two points of view of the cultural and political changes of the time, the radical part demonstrated by Lucy and the conservative side demonstrated by Cecil.

The movie opens up in Florence at the hotel Lucy and her cousin were staying, in this opening scene is where Lucy first met George Emerson over a discussion of the room view. Mr Emerson and his son offered their room to the ladies because he said that man didn’t need a view but women did. Charlotte who plays a conservative character in this movie declines to the offer saying that it was rude from him to insist on giving the the room but Lucy who should be the radical part of this scene disagrees with charlotte saying that the offer didn’t intent any harm at all and that they should take the Emersons room with the view to the river. Late in the movie a group made by the Emersons, Lucy, Charlotte and a couple other persons made their way to the country side of Italy. Here Lucy has an encounter with George that leads for them to kiss. George saw the opportunity thinking they were alone and went for it but Charlotte was right on the back of them and saw it all. Lucy and Charlotte discuss about the events and came to the agreement of keeping it a secret for everyone specially for Lucy’s mother because for Charlotte this would mean a shame for Lucy and also she would be the one to blame because she was the one in charge of Lucy at the moment and couldn’t let anything like this to happen.

Later in the movie we can see the empowerment of woman taking character into Lucy as she starts to takes decisions into her own hands. After the Emersons move to town by recommendation of Cecil George and Freddy become great friends. The two of them were doing all kind of activities together like swimming on the lake, playing tennis and so on. One day after a tennis game George finds himself in the opportunity to kiss Lucy again this event led her to a lot of confusion about if she should marry Cecil or not. That same night she took the matter into her own hands and decided that she wasn’t going to marry Cecil and she wanted to go to Greece instead. For all of this to happen she had to lie to everyone so that she wouldn’t be punished by society. But at the end she got what she wanted and she was happy with it.