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Maybe a kiss is the worst kind of strike – either when you don't expect it and you're caught off guard, or you’re desperately asking for it, and it just keeps lingering. Whether this is a sign in mob code or a dip into the gray zone of homosociality, our expectations as viewers are broken for good: where other films escalate into the rapture of the cinematic kiss, this one sets off with its rupture. Elias can satisfyingly throw his proxy and ascend.