reversed gender roles?


Did anyone else pick up on this? It started with the flowers that she gave to him (and that made me think back to a minute earlier to how he behaved: making himself pretty for her, and their telephone call where seems a bit dominant) and it continued on from there. I was especially impressed with the inflection in Portman's voice here, it really reminded me of a male's (she is normally quite soft spoken). And she was the active one - he was passive and gentle, in their exchange.

I thought this was very charming and interesting to see.

The nude scene kinda messes this up a bit though...

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Very interesting take.

Can't stop the signal.

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When I think about it, yea, you are right! I always interpreted her as being a dominant personality in this short but never picked up on the (deliberately?) masculine aspects of her behavior. Interesting.

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