Mexico/Swanlake Cute Meet

[alice malice]

Yes, a Sadean landscape or Sadomasochistic Theater/Theatre?

Ever seen 007 from russia with love? how they spill the oil, then the
spool of film out into the water from the boat as they escape?

Of course they are kids, boy meets girl, horny, a bit pumped up on
youth and hormones and rivalry and jealousy and innocence and the war
and the rocket mixes all that up in a martini glass, shaken not
stirred.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Jonathan Post <jonfpost at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>Their Hollywood cute meet is made impossible/intruded on by the rocket:
>
> "At which moment the rocket falls. Cute, cute."
>
>>>But then what does it become?
>
> "He didn't even believe she'd get into the car, rocket or not rocket,
> accordingly now puts Pointsman's Jaguar somehow into reverse instead of low,
> yes, backs over the bicycle, rendering it in a great crunch useless for
> anything but scrap.
> “I'm in your power,” she cries. “Utterly."
>
>>>the "accordingly" seems at odds with the "somehow". Has the cute meet gone
>>> sinister, Mexico purposely removing any possibility of Swanlake's escape? Is
>>> her reaction a real genuflection? Does the rocket bring with it, if
>>> temporarily (because of course, we are told a few lines latter that Swanlake
>>> is not in his power), a Sadean landscape?
>
>>>or do we emphasize the "somehow into reverse" and see the crunch as an
>>> accident and Swanlake's response as tongue-in-cheek
>
> Thoughts?
>
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