Lies, to maintain the sexual bond, John and Cynthia, John and Elizabeth's sexual relationship are the two lies of this film.
Videotape, a symbol of reality. After Cynthia videotaped, she exposed the lies with John; Ann and Graham confessed their love after videotaping each other; John watched Ann's video and revealed Elizabeth's lie to Graham.
Cynthia is my favorite character. She's the most loyal to her emotions in the film, and John sees her as a way to defy older sister Ann's didactic conventional mundane and sheer pleasures. So she recklessly proposed to have an affair at her sister's house while John was at work. When she achieved her goal, she rejected John very decisively. She took the initiative to find Graham and asked Graham to videotape her. It can be said that she took the initiative to abandon the lie. While the other characters in the film are passively waiting for the lies to be exposed, Ann and Graham live in imaginary fantasies of others, and John lives in the lies woven by themselves.
When Graham first appeared, I was attracted to him. Later, I realized that his love at first sight with Ann infected me. When he and Ann videotaped each other, I realized more that he was too similar to Ann, and they found him. similar.
Between lovers, when one of them has another object of affection, will they communicate frankly? I think the reality should be to practice and choose to lie like John, or suppress yourself (lie to yourself) like Ann. The film broke this deadlock through the intervention of the videotape, and the director recorded the truth through the "sex diary".
Candor and truth can be vulnerable to human desires, where there is sex, there is a lie, and a videotape or a lover can bring truth and self-salvation.
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