Brandon is addicted to masturbating, recruiting prostitutes, paid online passion videos, 3Ps, etc., but can't enjoy a normal love sex life, he is anxious but powerless Change, we see despair on his face;
Sissy is self-indulgent, her life is a mess, she is dissatisfied with her life but unable to change, so she keeps self-harming;
in fact, in life, serious procrastination, Internet addiction, sleeping late, etc. Similar to the above state, knowing that this is not good, but still can't help but do or not do it, the anxiety accumulates and becomes more and more serious, and finally becomes despair, self-abandonment, and self-loathing.
The self-loathing caused by this self-defeating life style is probably unique to human beings.
Did someone mention why Sissy didn't get along with Brandon? Early human beings, including animals, did not prohibit sexual behavior between blood relationships, and all moral ethics were slowly established later. Judging from the study of primitive tribes, the ethical regulations are quite different from place to place.
But instinctively speaking, the sexual impulses between the opposite sex/same sex are not bound by ethics, and (I personally think) it is impossible for the instinctual impulses to disappear automatically because of the existence of blood relationship. The ethical conventions of modern humans are constraints on instinct, and this anti-entropy process often produces anxiety. As a result, the film has a lot of themes to shoot.
The two points that come to mind above are not much extended in the movie.
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