The hapless victims/perps (the two sisters and their suitors) are the definitive petit-bourgeois, whereas the people puncturing their love-bubble come from significantly higher or lower social classes, who have always had a more prosaic attitude towards matrimony (dynastic alliances or mere survival).

I like this clip mostly because of Teresa Stratas‘s physical comedy and her brilliant swapping of the pictures seems to highlight the fact that the men are, in fact, swappable; the sisters are in love with their *ideas* of the suitors. The individuality of the men matters little to them.

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