Afraid of face-to-face, in any form of communication with people will not boldly speak their own heart.
I like this movie because of the music, because of the camera, because of Fassbender's desperate soulfulness again and again. Someone once said you could try putting a mirror in front of you while you're masturbating.
I hate psychologists and screenwriters who use Freud's way to write stories. They said: Well, this guy has an Oedipal plot, he's very lacking in love, so we do, we shoot him masturbating, and it's not semen that spews out, it's his repressed desire.
What the audience sees is the different desperation of all the marginalized people in life, but no one can tell them what to do.
I sympathize with the character of Brandon, I understand all his desperation, all loneliness, all emptiness, all that hysterical behavior. But no one has ever been able to tell me what to do.
I'm not ashamed at all, just a little lost.
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