Posted by GoldenCheese Returns ! at cache-loh-ab06.proxy.aol.com on November 09, 2003 at 11:47:30:
In Reply to: I, too, just finished Punch-Drunk Love... some Q's posted by who cares who sent the paper on November 09, 2003 at 10:04:25:
It's more or less a strange little love story about a man with a mental illness (social phobia) trying to overcome his fragmented life, the harmonium is a sort of strange security blanket and metaphor of his life, Life gives an instrument which sometimes doesn’t work too well. Sometime in your live you have to get some guts, pick it up and examine it. From the start you have a crystal clear ideal of what it should sound like, but it seems impossible to play it. You need various tools along the way that will help you fix it and practice until finally, you have the ability to play the songs that you have always wanted to play, that is why it is a harmonium eg Harmony within his own life.