P.the story of women’s emancipation and conquests by The bride, fiction with Serena Rossi And Giorgio Marchesi who last Sunday kept glued to the TV over 6 million viewers.
And it also sparked a debate on national stereotypes: from racist Venetians to the landscape of Puglia passed for the Calabrian one, as if the south were a homogeneous area.
Returning to the plot: what happens between Maria and Italo in the new episode? Love finally breaks out? Meanwhile, something from the past returns to disrupt the life of the young Calabrian, who has been moved to the Bassi farmhouse.
Giorgio Marchesi and Serena Rossi. (Endemol)
The bride, the previews of the second episode
The body found in the river is just that of Giorgia, the first wife of Italo (Giorgio Marchesi). The man screams, he is desperate. But that find definitively clears him of the accusation of being the killer. Unable to take the pain, Italo prepares to perform an extreme gesture.
Maria intervenes to stop him. Calm him, try to reason with him. She lovingly reassures him, prompting him to accept the loss once and for all. In the name, above all, of his son Pauline (Antonio Nicolai), who has already suffered too much.
He is also present at the funeral Giulio (Denis Fasolo), the brother of Giorgia, what an accusation Italo And Vittorio for having turned his sister away from him. Meanwhile, another long-hidden truth emerges. Italo turns out its uncle Vittorio (Maurizio Donadoni) he deceived his wife’s family. Furious, he beats him, only to leave the farmhouse for good and disappear into thin air. Will he retrace his steps?
The birth of a love
While Vittorio is stuck in bed from being beaten, Maria, once again, he must take strength and keep the Bassi estate going. With his decisive attitude he proves to be perfectly capable of managing everything, improving the working conditions of the laborers.
Giorgio Marchesi with Serena Rossi. (Endemol)
Retracing his steps, Italo she feels more and more attracted to Maria. He begins to trust her and look at her differently. An important feeling is therefore born between them. But bad news, which comes from Calabria, obliges Maria to go home immediately.
A disputed heart
Before Mary leaves, Italo proposes to her to end the marriage, so as to free her from any obligation: she deserves to be happy.
The woman is very upset by his words. Arrived in the country of origin to assist Joseph (Matteo Valentini), his brother suffering from typhus, finds himself face to face with Antonio (Mario Sgueglia), his first love returned from Belgium.
Mario Sgueglia, Serena Rossi, Giorgio Marchesi. (Endemol)
Antonio is now an important man, he made his way with his construction company, saved the life of Joseph, paying for his treatment in a private clinic, and for the future he would like to involve him in his projects. To Maria then confess of never having forgotten her, finally managing to snatch a kiss from her.
Italo returns to Maria after leaving her
Maria, however, he can’t stop thinking about Italo, and surprisingly she sees him arrive after traveling all night, just to tell her who loves her and beg her to come back. From him and from Paolino.
Also Maria confesses to have deep feelings and finally they kiss. Against the backdrop of a declared love, the world is changing: during a protest by the unions against the exploitation of women in spinning mills, a fight causes an illness in Vittorio.
Maria, an unwitting feminist
The bride it transfers to the screen the story of many women who have experienced the price of being born women on their own skin, in a world made for men. Relegated to the role of service, treated like working beasts. Creatures that should always and necessarily be free.
In this cross-section of a very tough Italy, where the female condition is severely tested, the fate of Maria takes a new direction. She is an unwitting feminist, who overthrows patriarchy with the weapon of kindness and patience.
The series precisely frames the theme gender injustice. Scene after scene, Maria flies higher and higher. The protagonist of a bitter sweet portrait that always reminds us where we come from and who we are.
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