Questions posed by EWS

Andignac, David DAndignac at apmtech.com
Wed Jul 21 09:48:43 CDT 1999


	RR says>
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> Leads me to the question of how he picked that store>  Think that has more
> 
> importance than the above, which is easily explained, as typical perverted
> 
> goings-on.
> 
	The movie says that he picked the store because one of his patients
owned it. He is told that the original owner has sold the business and moved
to Chicago.
> >
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> Some guys (and gals) wanted their ladies to be dressed.  I was surprised
> to 
> see that only heterosexual activities were going on. But hey, this club
> was 
> mostly het.  Hardly a reason to crticize as some of the reviewers did.  
> Would it make them feel better if there was other stuff happening at the 
> ball--those critics.
> 
	There were the two women caressing a third woman in the room-by-room
and in the ballroom dancing scene there were men dancing with men and women
dancing with women but they appeared to be cross dressed (a woman naked
dancing with a women dressed as a man)


> >Woman whose father died
> >
> >What was her significance?  Her math professor fiance?  Was it only to
> >reinforce Cruise's power over women?  Or to get him out of the house?
> >
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> It did seem odd and out of the blue, but one could look at it as the 
> beginning of Cruise's spiral into a sexual abyss, desire so forthright,
> and 
> obviously dangerous.  So close to Death'll do that to anyone...
> 
	Also this was probably the least attractive of any of his encounters
(he already knows her, there's no anonymity in the relationship and thus a
greater chance of being caught, there's a dead body in the room, she's older
and grieving). And yet he calls her at the end, hanging up on the fiance
when he answers. Is he still looking for sex? Has he gotten that desparate
or is this closing the loop in some way?

	David A.



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