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Rita Tushingham and Peter Finch explore what it means to be in a May-December romance in Girl with Green Eyes, and the action is very much her growing realization that their experience gap is a problem. That's in part the green of her eyes. On a surface level, she's a young Irish girl, raised as a strict catholic and he's an atheistic English writer, so the experience gap isn't just age-based. It's more universal than that. And so the green is also the color of envy and jealousy, so while he doesn't cheat on her, she still feels jealous of where he is in his life and that she can't quite be his partner. She's definitely the focus of the film, but I can also understand where Finch's character is coming from. He's too old and pragmatic to play games, so her naive manipulations don't make a dent, and he has a speech early on (that unfortunately the film insists on rehashing at the end in case we weren't paying attention) about the impermanence of any relationship and of the self (they're interrelated). Finally understanding that helps her get over that, as obviously, a young person is in a state of flux already. Very weird how they cut off her narration at the end though.

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