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Paulie: "Good evening Victoria. Hello Bruce!"

Listen and watch this scene carefully. Paulie plays with words here. Normally she would be supposed to say "Good evening Bruce (Mr. Moller). Hello Victoria!" Lost and Delirious is the perfection of - what in French is called "trompe oeil" - means, you can never believe what your eyes tell you.

Paulie is wearing a man's suite and she is changing salutations. There is a deeper meaning behind this, which intensifies her rebellious character. Paulie sees herself in a battle with the rest of the world for the one and only love in her life. She's wise enough to huddle in the role of any society event and fight there in the role that she's given, but she doesn't realize that she can't succeed this way.