Most Rewatchable Scene
Stoned marital fight, two choices; masked party, one choice
In the discussion (15)
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- Stoned Alice confronting Bill is nominated.
- Alice’s dance with the Hungarian is praised as intensely sexy and revealing about marriage; opposing reactions find him creepy and his performance poor.
- The confrontation over Bill’s certainty of Alice’s fidelity is a personal favorite; the performances are defended as right for this strange film even if conventionally bad.
- Alice’s confrontation is praised for musical delivery, rhythmic strangeness, and its escalation from reassurance into a carefully controlled fight.
- The confession about abandoning husband and daughter for the naval officer is read as a deliberately wounding disclosure, not merely an honest admission.
- The entire night-out sequence from Marion through Domino to Nick is nominated.
- Marion’s painful love confession is praised and interpreted as a clue toward dream logic because it seems implausible for someone Bill barely knows.
- The masked party builds from spectacle into unpredictable danger, producing uncertainty about where the story could possibly go.
- The escalating strangeness of Marion, Domino, Nick, the costume shop, and the masked party is admired as a progression.
- The costume-shop encounter is nominated for its unsettling wigs and the proprietor’s remarkable comic performance while trying to serve his customer.
- Bill realizing he is being followed through New York is nominated, particularly the creepy music.
- The pool-table conversation is nominated, with Pollack’s performance praised as consistently smooth and excellent.
- The final conversation in the store is nominated.
- Alice’s dream account is nominated for its savage description of humiliating Bill, with astonishment that a real married couple performed it.
- The stoned fight receives two final preferences; the masked party receives another.