BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (Blake Edwards, 1961)

How can a person be so worried about what she/he has (materialistic things) instead of what he/she thinks, feels, wants to feel, loves? I do not know. I do not understant. A life based on luxury and caprices is not a good life because, at the end, the person who depends on these things is not really happy. Why are there people who flee from their lives, from their sentiments, from their reality? Why are there people who prefer not to accept that they are in love and thus to be unhappy the rest of their lives?

Those people who pretend to be what they actually aren't end up living a life which is not theirs, as Holly (Audrey Heburn)does. She goes for a life who does not belong to her, she pretends to be a free woman whose feelings do not betray her but at the end, all of this makes no sense because she realizes that she cannot deny that she is love with Paul (George Peppard) and that it is him what she wants in her life, even more than all the diamonds of Tiffany's.

The comparison that is made between Holly and her cat (called cat) has made me rememeber the movie Cat on a Hot tin Roof, which in fact has some similarities with this movie, not totally but at least partially. I think the protagonists of both films share some of their most important characteristics such as their great strenght to survive - accompanied or alone - as well as their own soul, which in both Holly and Maggie is assimilated with the figure of a cat.