Scent of a Woman story
The story of a preparatory school student who takes a job as an assistant to an irritable, blind, medically retired Army officer. The film is a remake of Dino Risi's 1974 Italian film Profumo di donna, adapted by Bo Goldman from the novel Il buio e il miele (it) (Italian: Darkness and Honey) by Giovanni Arpino and from the 1974 screenplay by Ruggero Maccari and Dino Risi. The film stars Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell, with James Rebhorn, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Gabrielle Anwar.
10 total · 6 choice · 2 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| blindness | choice | Frank was blind and was not coping well with it but seemed to come to terms with it towards the end |
| compromising one's ethical principles vs. self-preservation | choice | Charlie refused to compromise on his ethical principles because he had integrity |
| contemplating suicide | choice | Frank wanted to take his own life after a weekend of wild merrymaking |
| honor | choice | Frank seemed honorable but he cheated and lied several times and in the end admitted that Charlie had taken the high road where he himself had not |
| integrity | choice | Charlie refused to snitch in spite of having every incentive to do so; he could also have left Frank to his fate |
| sacrifice for one's beliefs | choice | Charlie was willing to risk his own life to stop Frank's suicide; Charlie also was willing to give up all his career prospects by not snitching on his classmates |
| coping with aging | major | Frank several times clearly felt his years weight on him |
| teenage angst | major | Charlie had some traditional high school concerns about friendships, money and popularity |
| the role of war veterans in society | minor | Frank was a war veteran and not happy, although beynd that his role in society was not much discussed |
| womanizing man | minor | Frank was clearly a womanizer, we learned a few times over |