This is more than a wife simply cheating on her husband. This is adultery which is intended to hurt her husband , physically, emotionally and every which way possible. . Its no shock to me how this movie ends. Morlang, a successful artist has been married for a long time and we are led to beleve they have a good relationship and marriage, but his wife obviously feels otherwise. . She acts as his manager and accepts a manager position with a much younger and flirtatious artist. M orlang senses that there is an attraction between them and when the young client wants to paint her, she initially laughs it off, but M orlang suggests that it sounds like a good idea, she gives the impression that she is being forced by him to pose. When the time arrives, she tells her husband to tell her not to go. He says nothing. Its as if she knows what she will do if she goes, but her husband tests her by making the decision to go or not to go hers and not his.. She goes, and leaves in an angry mood. Morlang realizes what could happen and tries to spy on them. When he realizes what she is likely doing, he is emotionally destroyed and paints his own image of his misery. . She senses that he knows when she returns that he knows what she has done., but neither discuss it until she gets angry with him about him accepting bad news without challenging it she describes it as his passiveness. Not content with simply complaining about him she becomes intent on wanting to hurt him , in a way that would cause pain and humiliation in any man. She describes in gory detail how physically sexual he was with her and she says it with a clear intent to hurt him. He doesnt show his pain but how the movie plays out after that confrontation is what makes this movie the real reaction he ultimately has to her betrayal
