what is the point of the bath wanking scene?
just wonder if anyone has at insight into this scene , does it connect with the wanking younger blake. i didn't really understand it
loved the film jim broadbent and firth were wonderful, powerful film
I was looking forward to that scene actually, it's not every day I got too see Colin Firth naked, wet and mastrubating ;p Damn that water!!
But back to your question. I think he thought back to the first time he had sex with Sandra.
If you read the book you would understand this scene. In the book Blake has walked past his parents room and sees his father. He is stressed. He is dealing with nothing but death and not being able to reconcile his issues with his dad and he's going through it, more or less, alone. It has all gotten to him. He goes in the bath and masturbates. It is sex, a reaffirmation of life, with death all around him. It really had nothing much to do with Sandra, though the movie makes it come across that way.
(if you are wondering, I have corresponded with Mr. Morrison on this subject and he stated Colin understood it completely)
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Not, per se, but that it is a sexual act. If you do not understand it then 1 - you haven't been through something like this and 2 - I can't explain it to you further on a movie message board
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The feeling, the pleasure, the buildup and the orgasm makes him feel alive. The complete and exact opposite of dying or death.
shareThanks for that explanation. Between these two men the father never gave his son
a feeling of self worth or individuality. Not necesaily out of meanness or cruelty, the
father was too busy being selfish and indulging in his life - his excesses. He stifles
Blake's character his whole life and does not understand it or realize he is doing it.
Then the question of is the father extraordinarily selfish or self-centered, or is that
true of everyone ... I mean, look at Blake's hypocrisy with the Scottish girl, or his
competition with his Dad with her.
Wow, what a movie.
I mean, look at Blake's hypocrisy with the Scottish girl
If you are referring to the scene after his da died and he went to her place, it looks that way. However, they did not have sex at that time. The book makes this very clear but the movie is ambiguous about it. I feel the movie, if you read the book, leaves it unclear and if you had not read the book it comes across that they did.
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I guess I do not feel that it matters, he showed the intent, he made the move and at
least in the movie she actually had to rebuf his advance, not him stopping on his
own.
In a way it is very complex, superfically it would seem to vindicate the father, that
the dad did nothing wrong. But deeper than that the chronic exposure and victimization
of that over a long time can warp a kid. And that everyone does not notice or seem to
notice because it is not directed at them is doubly warping. it is like bullying in a sense.
At least those are my thoughts at the moment.