Does she understand what true love is? Yes in the end she does. Does she pay for her sins? She does more than anyone. Scarlet lives in a personal hell which partially she created herself and only when the last obstacle to her big love, the female friend that loves her is gone, she realises that all this time, she lived the illusion of love, she was hurting the people that loved her. You would think she ends up achieving everything she wanted, but she does not. The goal is what pushes her forward and sometimes makes her do good things, but these deeds are never done out of big heart, they are usually done in self interest. She can kill a person and not feel that bad about it,she can exploit prisoners rather than hire free men. She can easily manipulate men and sometimes women in order to achieve her goal. Something that I realised on a 2nd viewing is that Scarlet is a pretty selfish person with sociopaths behaviour. She has a target she want to achieve and she thinks if she achieves it she will be happy, while missing the point on the way to that target. Scarlet lives almost her entire life in an illusion of love. At first you would think, the main theme of the film is the horrors of war and the idea that both sides suffer, but that is not the only case in "Gone with the Wind", the war is just a background.
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