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can yearning make you sick

can desire kill you

no sorry but in context the tmmm loco amor scene feels like the craziest shit ever put to screen. lenny bruce is midge's comedy fairy godmother slash agony aunt slash spirit of new york slash part-time innocent flirtationship who she knows nothing about but can read like a book. they meet almost exclusively by accident and never talk about anything that means anything to either of them—unless it is funny. each time they meet, a temporary pocket universe is created to hold specifically them for specifically that moment but it would never in a million years occur to her to seek him out in the real world. so then imagine her seeing him while she's on tour. in florida. where for some reason lenny decides, yes. now. he invites her out for a drink in a few weeks and then shows up to collect twenty-four hours later because he apparently can't wait that long. and he brings her on live television with him and introduces her as his beloved wife (or sister) (but definitely wife) and then immediately after takes her on the most astonishingly sexy and atmospheric date of all time where they do nothing but eye fuck and utterly forget to be funny. and dance. he is so visibly in love with her he can't even engage with her attempted bits. their dynamic is completely wrecked but also completely the same. it's like a fever dream. the universe is still making room for them even though it shouldn't. they're speedrunning falling in love for reasons that do not seem clear to either of them but are also completely exactly right. they don't have sex because it can't be over yet. it just can't. and it was never supposed to happen at all but now they know it has to. someday. (before they're dead.) this happens in approximately half an hour