IMDB image of Indecent ProposalI’m watching Robert Redford’s “Indecent Proposal” as I type and I must say it had many topics running through my mind for a blog post, but I chose infidelity as the topic for this one.  I find the concept of this movie somewhat ridiculous mostly because Robert Redford is the guy paying the money for Demi Moore.  Why not get that guy from Seinfeld who delivers the mail: “Newman.”  Then you’d have a real story.  Any woman on earth would probably give their pinkie finger to hang out with Robert Redford in a posh hotel for 1mil.  Where the struggle here?  Beyond that, her husband tells her not to and says he is jealous from the beginning?  Where’s the lack of morality?

I think this story had mass appeal at the box office plain and simply because people in this day and age: “cheat” on one another.  We have learned from reality tv and talk shows that “wife swapping” (in its truest sense) goes on as commonplace.  People respond to this movie because they want to weigh their own fantasies of infidelity against what Hollywood portrays it as.

I thought about how this might go down with my wife and I and just kept laughing at the idea of it.  1mil is a lot of money and I’d love to have it.  BUT I would decline on the grounds that I wouldn’t want to wreck my marriage over it.  That goes for if a woman wanted me for a million bucks (oh my, that poor one would have to truly be sick in her head).  I would decline on the basis of the harmony of my marriage.  Even 10 million could never replace that special bond, that quiet trust that exists between us.  To be honest, I have a hard time imagining how people can swing much less accept payment for their spouse as Woody Harrelson does in this movie.

You can see this movie had an impact on me.  Have you seen it?  What do you think of consensual infidelity? Please be honest and sign in as anonymous if you want. Of course if you agree with me, that’s always allowed too ;)