Lawry visits David & Huey's very special guest as himself, & they all watched different versions of Jacques Deray's The Swimmer's Pool (aka La Pissscene) ((1969)) with its inherent eroticism of water; Lawry, our water-expert chimes-in with his three-cents about what water "really" ""is."" How Wes Anderson movies are about as sexy as an a lonely submarine. Method roleplay & daddy kink interpretations totally subverting the film. Is a swimming pool just a small ocean? Which is safer, really? Jane Birkin being an attractive being regardless of what age she is/was... the restraint of Marianne (Romy Schneider) being the penultimate performance in a narrative that never seems to end... The difficulty of polyamory as a psychological undertaking; the inherent cliché in the male psyche of the midlife crisis. The observable fact that Jacques Deray is actually much better at nuanced & realistic dialog than Claude Chabrol ever was. The aporia of ethical quandaries & elder women trying to illustrate to younger women "don't be like me," etc. + the illustration of how Marianne is playing the best game of chess relative to all the characters in this film. Patterns of behavior & isolated incidents. Stay hydrated, folks.
