• phones/phonies
• having to go to the bathroom
• destiny/free will
• self control
• "What are you doing?"
• sickness/medicine (medicine/cures making it worse)
• crying at inappropriate times
• doors/doors being between people/opening and closing
• homosexuality
• hand shaking/agreements/vows
• manhood/womanhood vs. fatherhood/motherhood
• bad fathers and bad mothers
• and approval from people who are not "deserving" of approval
• agency
• individual vs. relative identity
• having faith in children
• acting/roles
• adequacy
• sex/relations as they are/ought to be
• angels/heaven/blessings/prayers
• appearance vs. reality
• names/misnomers
• images coming in and out of focus
• cameras/recording
• neglect
• doing your job well
• hunger/starvation
• love/not having a place for love/not knowing where to "put it"
• weapons/control over your weapons
• tricks/magic
• material wealth/american dream
• entitlement/earning
• "feels good"
• being a good actor/actress
• performing on command vs. directing (who is doing which?)
• choreography of movement/timing/ideas
• gender spheres
• playing by the rules
• cameras/exposure as connected to nudity and being exposed

!!!! sorry....this list is boring but i've been on a P.T. Anderson binge lately