art of seduction

is almost like that of hunting. you identify you target, and you know what you want from it. then you go about trapping it, after which you can do what you want, you can even kill it. i watched this movie - no country for old men - and the comparison is uncanny. the way they start with the scene of josh brolin shooting a deer. perched quietly and selecting his target and carefully aiming at its heart. he misses it. but in the end mafia does not miss him. after putting multiple people on his chase, they do finally get him. and of course you cannot miss the heartlessness of javier bardem. cold impenetrable eyes, chilling voice and expressionless face. a hunter to the core.

but i had also seen javier bardem in - vicky christina barcelona - where he plays a charming painter, warm eyes which are a pool of emotions, soft silken voice and a face that could well be a mirror of his heart. a seducer. and who could resist his charm? the sane or the insane, the fall is equally exhilarating and yet also equally delusional. i had watched the above movie with a couple friends and i wanted them to see the other extreme end of character diversity that javier could embody. as i described my impressions of the latter movie and i insisted them to watch it, one of my friends commented to me, "would you be seduced by such a man?" and then as i heard myself say, "absolutely" without missing a beat, i realized that in this role too javier was no more than a hunter. a hunter to the core. equally merciless, but with a different garb.

as i thought back, the pattern became clearer to me. and let me restless with the realization that attraction could well be the act of being trapped in a hunter's charm. and then my other friend broke down the analysis for me. a seducer creates this air of mystery around him. he will not answer any of your questions straight, he will only direct them back at you in a way that you would not expect. he throws you of your rational thinking by confusing you and that split second is enough to cloud your judgement by his silken voice and deep eyes. by then you have already become the hunted.

and at this point i would also like to quote from a very seductive person - "what you can touch you can have fun with." i leave it to you to interpret that in the above context.