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So do you think she touched it?


in a non-prurient way of course...when she and Liam Nielson are in the water and she sees a man's dillywhacker for the first time.

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no i really don't think so, but i also would hav egotten a fright if i saw it so close up for the first time in my 30's!
her reaction always makes me laugh :)

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on a side note did anyone notice her pointy nipples as she was caressing Liam Niesen in the water...I'd imagine it'd be somewhat difficult to hide pointy nipples in a nude scene, but of course the cold lake water could have contributed to that

am i being too observant?

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not over observant, just misreading things. i think it was way more likely that she had nipple rise due to the cold...

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Being a female, and other females might disagree, but i am 10x times more likely to get a nipple rise from cold than anything else. they don't become erect when eroused by a sight or a feeling. they're more kind of like goose bumps, like if someone caress's your skin it tingles. but guys really do have it all wrong to imediatly assume they function like a male errection. cold water definately makes them go hard, and they do shrink, but more like the scrotum skin than like the penis - the skin seems to contract and stiffen - it's not about blood supply. hey it may be different for other girls - maybe they do get nipple rise when aroused, but i know all girls get it when they're cold, and night swimming is usually just that.
i think you might be looking a little too closely at her breasts and although from what you've said you seem to get what the scene is all about, jodie foster is a brilliant actress, and nipple rise when it's cold is one thing women really can't control, no mattter what.

ps - u did mention shrinkage of male members - if that's the case, no matter how atractive liam is, it's hardly something for jodie to get excited over

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ah yes, now i see...the male scrotum does, in fact, have similar surface texture to the female nipple region and does timidly recess like a spooked turtle retracting its head into its shell from a quick fright. I surmise those parts do this in order to sustain correct body temperatures when exposed to extremes of temperatures -- in this instance of very cold lake water. In converse to my original conclusion, this would mean that the cold water, indeed, aided Liam and Jodie in their roles as non prurient curiousities for each other; since Liam "accidentally" having an erection at the site of Jodie's nudeness would undoubtledly decrease the temperature in a blood filled erection and adversely affect the comfort of his member. What lengths these finely tuned actors go through to perfect their art!!!!!

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probably unintentional but it all helps?
are u a nell fan or did u just see this movie once nad wonder upon jodies nakedness? :)

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That water must have been freezing. Not all girls get nipple erection when they are sexually aroused, but it's almost universal to have it when they're cold.

She said clearly "Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah." Why? Because Jerry looked slightly worried, and she must have guessed he was worried about how he looked. She might have been worried about her looks as a teenager, and Violet quoted that line from the Song of Solomon to reassure her. Later on, she says it again, addressing her memory of May, and adds "Comely as Jerusalem."

There is a huge amount of backstory in this film, much of it deliberately put there by the producers and designers. Everything in Nell's house, for instance, is there for a reason, including Violet's old spinning wheel. That's why I think some of the lines have backstory too -- this scene, and the one where Nell makes Jerry and Paula stop fighting, using a tactic Violet must have used to get the girls to make up.

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Only a juvenile stupid a$$ would think of that. What a moron with a one track mind.

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