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In the bathroom, why was Francis....


wrapping toilet paper around his hand? I didn't understand that part.

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I didn't understand it myself. At first I thought his excursions to the bathroom were to masturbate and release his sexual frustration. The toilet paper thing might still mean that but when I first saw what he was doing with it, it made no sense. It looked like a boxer wrapping his hand to prepare for a fight, so that was my next gut instinct, but obviously that's not what he intended either. I'm just as bewildered as you are, anyone else have any insight?

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I got the impression that he was just imploding internally and it kind of represented that. Maybe he was about to punch the wall, but he never really blows up in the entire movie until the end (almost.) So maybe he was just using it to act it out. Like when someone wants to cut themselves but instead just use a red pen to draw 'cuts' down their wrists.

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