The movie Unfaithful is about a married couple that has the perfect marriage, a good son, and beautiful suburban home. A couple that has a really open and loving relationship, almost to the point that it is too perfect- it is not exciting. Until one day the woman meets an attractive young man that puts a spark into her sexual desire throwing her into obsession. After the husband finds out that his wife is having an affair, he accidentally kills the "other" man. The police try to find the killer, no one is accused, and the man and wife restart their lives together.
There are three lead characters. The wife, Connie Sumner (Diane Lane), the husband, Edward Sumner (Richard Gere), and the lover, Paul (Olivier Martinez).
Connie is a beautiful and sexy middle class thirty-year-old mother. She is very nice, intelligent, loving, supportive wife. She valued sex with her husband but when she met Paul she became overly obsessed with "screwing" other than lovemaking. She enjoyed how Paul made her feel sexy all of the time and she wanted to feel sexy for him. Edward is a very handsome, physically fit loving husband. He was very in touch with his wife's emotional and physical needs. He valued his time with his wife. He enjoyed the lovemaking and tender touches he and his wife shared. He felt that it confirmed their love for one another. Paul, the lover, was a very attractive young man that was foreign, with a sexy accent. He was very mysterious and charming. He was a sex addict. He had all kinds of women, he viewed woman as a form of his personal pleasure, but he did not flaunt it. He felt sex as an act of pleasure, not as an act of love.
The movie portrayed the leading female actress, Connie, as a person that has not had very many sexual experiences, especially erotic and "naughty" ones. Her role was like a suppressed housewife, a woman that is supposed to be happy with her marriage. Connie was an upper middle class white woman that had it all, and that should have been good enough.
