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| | A Long Hard Look at Psycho |
 | | The stripes were rods painted the 'colour' required, and pushed across by hand; however, they're so featureless, so flat-on, that they register as pure 'pattern', as non-representational forms, as abstractions. |
 | | Hands, eyes, embracings are all questing for the mind within the other, not focusing on their own sensations. |
 | | An unsympathetic spectator might suppose that s/he's being made a voyeur, but if you're half-identifying with either of the lovers, and half-sympathetic towards the other, the scene is about tactility, about palpability not just as 'sexual stimulus' (though a streak of that is there), but as communication. |
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