The Woman Who Can’t Stop Lying

What if the eyes were not windows to the soul, but portals to the abyss? The Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek said it best when he suggested that the profundity of feeling inspired by the close eye contact of lovers was not cosy and emotionally comforting, but in fact fundamentally terrifying, as it offered a glimpse into the hollow unblinking emptiness of human existence. Zizek was talking about Hitchcock’s Psycho at the time, but he could have been describing the fascinating and strangely disturbing ONE Life: The Woman Who Can’t Stop Lying (BBC One).

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