We realize at the end when the mistress is furious to find out he's actually married. The fantasy of him being a (3rd rate) actor is told to the mistress to hide his real life when in reality he is a professor. Rather than assuming he is becoming unglued and psychotic, I believe his deception went into another arena, which was attempting to convince his wife that there is, in fact, another man that looks and talks like him - the reason this was psychotic was that the name he gave his wife from the phone call was his own. I think more or less this is about one man living a double (even triple) life (wife, mistress, and fetish club) who becomes disillusioned and bored with all of that danger and attempts to switch and become the husband to the mistress and the cheater with his wife. The women seem very honest emotionally and the only 'traps' they set is through their own honest nature by wrestling with their doubt, pain and insecurity with their lovers lies.

At the beginning they say: 'It's all about control' - yes, but moreover, I feel it's about controlling a life of deception. The 'web he weaves' is really about the danger and excitement of infidelity. 'Oh the tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive'. If the women are the spiders, the men are the weavers of the webs around everything. The unsettling atmosphere with regards to the pregnancy is not exactly the fear of having to nurture something, but the added effort of maintaining cycles of lies into the foreseeable future - there is no guilt at all. The presence of the round pregnant belly (much like a spider's abdomen) is the metaphor for the spider, but it's meaning is not fatherhood, it is hollow and empty emotionally and the danger is not in pregnancy, but the allure and temptation of sex and all the deceptions and dangers that come with it. It is actually not embodied by anything but raw allure and danger with regards to sexual rituals and lies. Women are related and linked to spiders, but that is the male(s) projecting that imagery onto the women.

Besides the cold nature of the house and lack of romantic love, all these metaphors relate to insects rather than mammalian concerns or fears related to nurturing.

The child is benign, not talked about - not really even mentioned. I started to share my thoughts and ended up unraveling more and more as I went: (sorry this is so long!)įirst, I really tend to disagree with the idea that actor Jake is somehow deeply concerned at all with impending fatherhood and that that is a trap for him. I just watched this movie tonight and liked it quite a lot, unsettling as it may have been.

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