Having recently wanted for water...
In the movie “All the water elsewhere,” there’s the scene where Landis gets up after contemplating Adela’s infidelity and we focus first on the chair, still warm from where he sat, and then a close up on the headphones…we can almost hear in the photograph the sound of the ocean outside the window and then…we see a closeup of the headphones and can hear Glenn Gould’s recording of Bach’s English Suite No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807, the seventh movement, “Gigue” and then the camera moves out and over to focus on the succulent plant sitting atop a wooden stool. The scene suggests so much in that Landis had asked Adela for a glass of water when she came back into the living room. And instead, she came in and said, “I’m leaving with Matthias for Greece tomorrow.” By the end of the scene we are led to believe that Adela is the succulent that only needs light (ahem, attention) and little to no water. Unlike Landis who often asked for a glass of water (Adela being a succulent was, in fact, mostly water) and she always refused.