arrested development - gangly underfed body like a preteen, babyish voice, girlhood bedroom with teddy bears and ballerina glass tchotskies which she uses to self harm, to cope with the pain of her unhappy family alcoholic father etc. she wants to move on but is lost (throws out brings it back throws out brings it back) stylistically would have been sooooooo cool, the whimsygothic-esque law office the specific shade of purple and pink on the threshold of womanhood represented by stepping out of the rain and into the law office as her mother urges her on - the blue hooded rubber thing is a reference to red riding hood? brunette her vs blonde mom and succssful sister. Purchased a couple of Mary Gaitskill books, a possibility there? such deep philtrums! perhaps its just the lighting ORCHIDS and plants. the plant wallpaper, the plants lining the hallway to his office room. the orchids within. I have become more aware of the sexual symbolism of orchids only in the past year and a half or so, from a small Japanese 'fetish' fashion brand. It's not fetishwear, but it's heavily inspired by it. Lots of tight skirts and billowy tops and pearls and leather and chain jewelry and so on. It was called a maiden devil but they changed the name, now it's medenius I think. I want to get some stuff from there. INside of his office vs the real florida shitty strip mall world it's interesting watching this from the perspective of a domme rather than a sub. When I first watched it, bdsm and sex in general was this thriling new world and everything blazed with heat in my mind & body, and it took a long time to understand my own inclinations. benevolent or nurturing dom as a gardener connecting the fsub back 2 earth, or as lee moaned while masturbating in the office stall, "mayonnaise...orchids..."