Unfaithful

I am just watching Unfaithful on Channel 5 right now.

The show is themed around love vs lust. It's about how this woman met a french stranger, and got entangled in a relationship with him. So she spends her days having sex with him when her husband goes to work and her child is at school. Soon enough, she had to make up lies to cover her frequent visits to the city and that's how she is slowly found out to be unfaithful by her husband.

It's a refreshing piece of work, really. Not because of the theme. Love vs Lust has been played out countlessly, from Shakespeare to American tele nowadays which talks about "fuck-buddies" (pardon the f word). It's refreshing because of the direction of the film. How she is portrayed to be unable to resist the temptation. And I love the music too.. everything seemed so whimsical and graceful. Beautifully shot. You could actually fall for the french guy. Yes, given the right circumstances (i.e. when your husband is a busy man and you are left alone at home). When the sex is really good (it is hinted that it's really really good in the film).

Such heartache for the husband! Someone once said that adultery is worse without love. At least there would be some justification for the actions. At least there would be the joy of love lost. Mindless is unpardonable, I guess..

That led me thinking.. what is love and what is lust? How do you tell when you start to love someone? When is it just lust? I guess there is no real answer for that. It's a theme that would be in the GP syllabus if Singapore was not a country of prudes. Then again, we can't have kids talking about sex would we? Cos if we talk about it, chances are we would go on to actually doing it! Think of the negative externalities of having rampant sex. Unwanted babies, AIDS spreading around..

Would I know if I loved someone?

The wonders of the television! I managed to write something about sex without ever experiencing it. So happens I am reading a book which talks of International Gestures. How true it is that we have started to live lives in televisions! So much so that our actions are typical and clones of each other. I guess that's the true science of TV!

Alright! Enough of this. Before I forget that my life is studying and eating and sleeping ONLY.