Now he takes other women to lunch and explains to them the difference between copper and bronze.Ĭharacters in Moonstruck try to hold life at arm’s length to avoid reality by following a myth to cheat death by looking the other way.
Cosmo Castorini was once so young and bright that he spent a night outside Rose’s door, a full moon on his shoulder. It’s a bit corny to love the moon but it’s better, I think, to be upfront about our sentimentalities, the vague attachments that keep us reaching. I once sent a poem to a girl about the moon and later realized it had scared her off, though I think she would have burned out either way. She wants a man on his knees whom she does not love. Loretta Castorini wants to get married right this time. She knows that to love is to be at risk and that a college professor should date a girl his own age. She’s happy that her daughter is not marrying for love, because Rose understands that love and death are twin disasters.
Rose Castorini knows this is true, but she needs to hear it from someone else, to give it some grit.
