Cassavetes is of ancient Greek descent after all and Gina's character (rather than the male character in the film) represents Cassavetes. Gina's character has an air of art and freedom, a raw poetic passion and madness. What she's doing - drinking, singing and dancing, listening to opera, arguing with her lover (debate), playing with children (her artistic madness is especially evident in the scene with Mr. Jensen's Swan Lake) Suppressed unconscious frenzy doing these things, she's a bit like an ancient Greek who has traveled through the constraints of modern life driven mad by everything she's nervous about. The overzealousness of the bizarre demeanor can only be considered abnormal in the increasingly strict and narrow definition of modern society. The kids like her and they don't think she's unbearably insane. They're just nervous because they don't have dogma in their heads. Maybe the craziest. The most unreasonable thing is the dogma of modern civilization itself, isn't it? Six months of
hospitalization (including electric shock therapy) did not fundamentally "cure" the heroine. "Okay", she's basically a cripple, and she's not the one the male protagonist loves There is hope (yes, although it is very vulgar to say that
Cassavetes is the god of wine and Rolands is the priestess of the god of wine (an idea is not necessarily correct)
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