last night, Kim and I went to see a movie at the cinema in DT SLC, called confidences trop intimes. It was a very dramatic, yet moving film about a woman who unintentionally enters the wrong door thinking that this tax lawyer is her psychologist. The tax lawyer mistakes the woman as someone who comes in asking for advices on a divorce, and realises later on the situation that has occurred between them. He sets out to make sure that he would tell this woman that he is not a psychologist but a tax lawyer. However, he finds it hard to disclose the fact and this goes on with the woman pouring out all the intimate details about her life, etc... It was really interesting to see, though I couldn't imagine myself in such a situation, listening to all the details and holding my true identity to myself.

For me, it seemed to have a theme relating to life. People don't want to share intimate details about themselves, and keep their identities masked in order to save face. People are too focused on being so perfect that they forget to be human sometimes. Life goes on, and people do things mindlessly in a routine fashion, not taking the time to relax and think over their lives and issues. For example, the tax lawyer in the movie thought he was very content with his life, living in the apartment and taking over the tax laws practise left over from his father, etc... The woman wants to make her marriage work with her crippled husband, and does not realise what she really wants until the very end.

Sometimes it is good to have a real good friend or two to share all the intimate details with, and to have them mirror the words back to you so that you can "hear" what you are saying. To me, it would seem important to share some details in order for one to feel much more "human" than to undergo a process of scrunity in order to appease people of their expectations. Sometimes it may even help to discuss things, so that people will see you as more human than others who do not want to share details of their lives with you. Perhaps that's why the film ended the way it did, because these two persons felt quite human (and accepted?) by each other.