A young girls pursuit of the man she loves

Rating: Null/10 (1 January 2004)

SPOILERS The story is so simple a young girl loves a young boy who loves his 1st cousin set during the Civil War. At any point in time this could have been a simple story but since there are so many players (the war being 1 of them) everything seems to go hairwire quickly.
Scarlett has this obession with Ashley Wilkes and no one not even the audience can understand why this is. Everyone wants her to go with Rhett and she refuses. Sound familiar?
Scarlett marries Melanie's brother so that she can stay close to Mrs. Ashley Wilkes while Mr. Wilkes and her husband go off to war. I get the feeling that Scarlet never wanted to live a complex life but she is going to get one that is for sure. Scarlett's husband is killed and she is not sorrowful at all but pretends to be.They work in the hospital until Melanie gives birth, Captain Butler gets them half way home to Tara and then leaves.

You have to ask yourself, if he loved her so much why would he leave her at that awful juncture? I know he tries to explain it later but his explanation plays a bit short. So she pulls the strength out of herself somehow and gets them to Tara only to find it is in shambles and what is worst is that her mother is dead and her Father is crazy. Melanie is so weak she must stay upstairs in bed to rest. One day a crazy Yankee comes looking for money and Melanie shoots him from behind. They both act hurried to hide his body and bury him. I bet alot of that type of stuff happened back then. I think this forms some form of strange bond beteween them: first they brought life into this world together under highly dangerous times (Why didnt scarlet say she forgot to get melanie and the baby to get them out of the way?) and now they have murdered someone together? This would explain Melanie's insistance that Scarlet be welcomed at the party (where she wears a red dress)...
anyway, the interesting parts of the movie occur when Scarlet and Rhett go on a honeymoon and scarlet wakes up in the middle of hte night crying she screams out 'the fog the fog" and he is like "What?" she is like i am lost in the fog looking for someone, and i can't find him..i keep calling out..." he comforts her.
Then Melanie dies and Scarlet realizes that Asley has been lying to her all these years, he only could love Melanie. So Scarlet runs out into the streets to find Rhett and there is FOG everywhere...she is running and runnig and crying, "Rhett" "Rhett"...i expected the movie to end here with him coming out from the fog and saying "I love you Scarlett"...but it does not end that way...