I love this about the world: the trust that people with a shared mission and vision develop together, the intimacy that arises through shared work.
But I can't think of another film that better captures the curious artificial intimacy that can arise in the process of interviewing, at length, the subject of a magazine profile.
True intimacy can only arise in the moment when we are able to drop out of our "stories" and "beliefs" and be completely present to oneself and with another.
As suspicions rise in the hothouse of unwanted intimacy, violence — intentionally sparked violence with a political basis, arising from unhealed wounds of the Civil War — breaks out.
On some level many (if not most) two-handers are fundamentally about the problem of intimacy, the primal human need to connect with another, and the sorrows and satisfactions arising from this drive apparently hard-wired into the psyche.
By following threads in online discussion groups, they could potentially neutralize unflattering appraisals (should any arise) or cultivate intimacy in a virtual universe that teemed with piano lovers, each a self-anointed critic but also, if properly massaged, a potential ally.
Apply this principle to relationships: When we share what we're experiencing with each other, intimacy is more likely to arise.
As they put it, "the continuum of fear and delight that arises from unexpected intimacy" begs the question, "do people abuse their newfound power or does it evolve into play?" The answer probably lies somewhere in between those two spectrums.
Wives' unhappiness, in turn, arises from gauzy expectations of unfettered intimacy, which, not surprisingly, most red-blooded males don't know how to provide.
On the emotional side of the intimacy equation, you'll want primarily to deal with significant sources of stress in your life as they arise, as stress can have a profound negative impact on your ability to enjoy physical intimacy sessions.
