--Now you've really got me thinking about sex as communication.
It's really foregrounded in this movie, especially since the screenplay is so spare; it's not a talkative cast of characters to begin with. The lovers have some of their most important conversations with their bodies. The viewer has to be able to understand that, and them, and it's just incredibly well done. It never looks like the choreography equivalent of an infodump.
The characters sound real and specific, not just "a northern man" or "a Romanian migrant worker," but this particular, unique, irreplaceable northern man and this particular, irreplaceable Romanian migrant worker.
Yes! You couldn't change them and have the story work the same way. You couldn't transplant it.
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It's really foregrounded in this movie, especially since the screenplay is so spare; it's not a talkative cast of characters to begin with. The lovers have some of their most important conversations with their bodies. The viewer has to be able to understand that, and them, and it's just incredibly well done. It never looks like the choreography equivalent of an infodump.
The characters sound real and specific, not just "a northern man" or "a Romanian migrant worker," but this particular, unique, irreplaceable northern man and this particular, irreplaceable Romanian migrant worker.
Yes! You couldn't change them and have the story work the same way. You couldn't transplant it.