These are Claudio and Gloria as I met them in the Galleria d'Italia and the reason they do not look as happy as they used to look is that Claudio just told Gloria he'll leave her for someone else. Gloria keeps asking him when did he even meet or found "someone else" ... like it mattered. He is bored and flustered and ashamed and wants to leave she is clinging and the entire situation is, frankly, embarrassing. As any good Italian Catholics, when they "find themselves in times of trouble", they turned to prayers ... Gloria prayed to Santa Caspetina di Falliubro (patron saint of broken-and-then-mended hearts) asking to be bound to Claudio forever, who in turn asked San Sidonio delle Proscuttini to help him say that he's going to go and let him be away. Major clash of prayers-come-true due to the well-documented animosity between the two above-named Saints: the two lovers though, each got what they asked for (kind of, more like were punished for not making a better effort to get along) ... they are together in a corner of a picture imprisoned in a 38-second repeating Aornis time-loop: it starts with Claudio mumbling his "Adieu" and slowly turning to leave, Gloria gasping and bringing her hand first to her breast and then up to cover her mouth (for her, a habitual gesture, for Claudio, a peasant woman's action) and it ends abruptly by jumping to the beginning. Thing is ... they do not realize "they are just prisoners here, of their own device" until it rewinds and starts all over again. I cannot imagine anything more frustrating. Who would come up with such an idea ... maybe Saints who can afforde to make up mind viruses?
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