Tabu

A curious but compelling film:
Shot in black and white, almost completely silent but with good music, with a time frame which spans over a century and reveals the secrets and emotional life of an old lonely woman in Lisbon.
The main romantic plot takes place in beautiful, sunny, sensual Africa. The other parts of the story which happen in Lisbon are bleak and cold as befitting the story - life in Lisbon is punishment to the great crime of passion in her past.
Why is passion always punished so severely in stories? What are we saying to the universe with these lessons? that passion is to be destroyed, or is it self destructive?
I don't know.