For this Watch & Talk session, Anji has chosen scenes from different films for us to dive in to the idea of loving what we know will hurt us, and we often do it anyway. Is it worth it? Is it worth not doing it?

Why are we sometimes drawn most powerfully to the people and things that hurt us? Why can obsession feel like love, control like intimacy, and emotional chaos more “real” than stability? And when something is breaking us apart, why can letting go feel even more unbearable than staying? Cinema has always been fascinated by this darker contradiction in human nature, the strange places where love, pain, desire and destruction become difficult to separate. Perhaps we don’t simply fear pain. Perhaps sometimes we need it to convince ourselves that what we’re feeling is real.

Join Anji, Cannes-nominated director and endlessly curious observer of film and the human condition, for a journey into some of cinema’s most unsettling explorations of emotional addiction and intimacy. Through selected scenes from Lars von Trier’s Antichrist, Michael Haneke’s Caché, Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession and more if time allows, we’ll explore relationships that consume, desire that becomes obsession, and the uncomfortable territory where intimacy begins to reveal something darker about ourselves. These films don’t give us easy answers—and neither will we look for them. Instead, Anji will guide an open, thoughtful conversation about the difficult emotions they expose and why cinema can make them visible in ways ordinary language sometimes cannot. No knowledge of these films, filmmaking or psychology is necessary... just curiosity, an open mind and a willingness to look at one of the stranger contradictions of being human.

Let's sit back with good friends in comfy chairs and watch scenes from films that continue to inspire filmmakers, lovers and dreamers around the world. Let's discuss them in depth with a brilliant director, and let's have a conversation we'll never forget.

这次“电影之夜”，Anji挑了几部不同电影的片段，带我们一起钻进一个话题：明知会受伤，我们还是去爱，而且常常还是照做不误。值得吗？不去做，又值得吗？

为什么我们有时候偏偏最容易被那些伤害我们的人或事吸引？为什么痴迷可以感觉像爱，控制可以感觉像亲密，情绪上的混乱反而比稳定更“真实”？当某样东西正在把我们撕裂时，为什么放手有时候比留下更让人无法承受？电影一直对这种人性中更暗的矛盾着迷——在那些奇怪的地带里，爱、痛苦、欲望和毁灭变得难以分开。也许我们并不只是害怕痛苦。也许有时候，我们需要它来让自己相信，我们感受到的东西是真的。

加入Anji——戛纳提名导演，对电影和人性永远充满好奇的观察者——一起走进电影里对情感成瘾和亲密关系最令人不安的一些探索。通过Lars von Trier的《反基督者》、Michael Haneke的《隐藏摄像机》、Andrzej Żuławski的《着魔》等片段（如果时间允许还能看更多），我们会探讨那些消耗人的关系、变成痴迷的欲望，以及亲密开始暴露出我们自身更黑暗一面的不适地带。这些电影不会给我们简单答案——我们也不会去找。相反，Anji会引导一场开放、有思考的对话，聊它们暴露出的那些难以处理的情绪，以及为什么电影能以日常语言有时做不到的方式，让这些东西被看见。不需要了解这些电影、电影制作或心理学……只要好奇心、开放的心态，以及愿意去看看人性中更奇怪矛盾之一的意愿。

跟好朋友们窝在舒服的椅子里，一起看那些持续启发着全世界电影人、恋人和梦想家的电影片段。和一位出色的导演深入聊聊它们，然后展开一场我们不会忘记的对话。