Haarlem's peeping of stepmother is to monitor her, to find her "criminal evidence", and Kate's peeping is a kind of observation, to satisfy his longing for his mother and admiration for his lover. The film maintains Haarlem's image with two details. One is Haarlem's destruction of friends "stealing pleasure"-his pranks that he followed the ropeway and descended from the sky indicated that his snooping was not for excitement; the other was After Kate expressed his sexual interest after drinking, Haarlem refused to hesitate to claim that he was gay. This shows that his physical desires are basically controlled by reason. This is also because he threw his stepmother into the water and fished it out at the end of the film. Do a good job of foreshadowing the character's character.
"Hallam Foe" has a lot of bloodshot shots. The first level, the "sex" between Alasdair and Kate, is physical sex, which is completely physical vent; the second level is emotional catharsis, loneliness, crying, anger, fear, and tension are all possible. Become the fuse of sex; the third level is the level of love. In the film, the "communication" between Haarlem and Kate’s hotel room is the expression of love, beautiful and pure.
The stepmother, Alasdair, and Kate all thought that Haarlem was a voyeur, and Haarlem knew he was not. His confession tells a lot. It is precisely because he is not understood that he is "lonely", "nothing to rely on", and "Hallam Foe". The plot of "Oedipus" involved in the film will be deeply moved by Haarlem's sincere feelings of missing his mother. When facing Kate dressed in his mother's clothes, his tears express his love for his mother, and his all kinds of weird behaviors are also It is nothing more than to make up for the missing maternal love
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