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and what it implies. The first reason Giulia is so insistent that Claudia
come along is so she can act as an observer. She needs Claudia to see
because, as with the other characters in the film, love isn’t really
justified unless there is someone around to see it. This is enforced later
on in the film when Sandro kisses Claudia in the hotel in front of the
bellboy, but once the boy has gone Sandro no longer feels the need to
expression and body language. All the while the seduction is going on
Claudia is amused, but the more Giulia and Goffredo get into it the
more stern she becomes, to the point where she interjects and makes
them get off of one another. She is then shown to the door by Giulia,
and then leaves and closes the door behind her. When the door is
closed we can tell by her facial expression that she is brushing off what
reaction conveys to us, the audience, is that she frowns upon cheating
although she becomes engaged in it herself, and also that she does not
have the romantic innocence of Giulia and finally that she is