Absolute CRAP

Yea, it was all very subtle and nice. A ten year old understands the psychology behind what drives the sister. It doesn't change the fact that the portrayal of it was blunt, overemphasised and bad.

No, I highly doubt you get her psychology. You have no clue what's going on in the movie. And between the people in the movie.

The only thing that is "blunt and overemphasized" is the sister's personality which has nothing to do with her psychology and what drives her to Graham. She doesn't "portray" her psychology. You have to interpret it through her progessive choices

As for her boorish personality, which is portrayed, she was described as an extrovert. She's extroverted sexually, which is no big deal and no big mystery.

And that is still not why she goes to see Graham.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8gwtFMutyU

So this is the second time Graham and Ann ever meet (after having met briefly only once before in Ann's house). They meet in a public place - a café. They talk about very intimate things - therapy, sex, impotence and all that type of stuff you normally do with friends of your partners whom you've never really met before.

AGain, you don't know how to interpret movies or art. You don't know how to interpret things figuratively.

I didn't play the video but I know the scene you're talking about. They aren't strangers. They ARE intimate and the intimacy has been established from their first scene in the living room when they make a connection. And there's a specific line that Graham says that makes it obvious why Anne is interested in him and why she would discuss such intimate things (She already discusses those items with a psychologist who is much more of a stranger than Graham .. but I bet you don't think so because you look at things in a mundane fashion ... you wouldn't be able to distinguish what establishes intimacy. Anyway, Anne is used to making personal confessions in a casual, impersonal context and she transfers all that from the psychologist to Graham, who has been psychoanalyzing her from their first conversation.)

A hint for you: The reason she talks to Graham is the same reason the sister talks to Graham. They are after the same thing but via different people.

What do I fail to understand? The massively cringey and forced sexual undercurrents? The complete awkward and unnatural situation between two strangers? What's this enigmatic "content embedded in dialogue" that I'm missing?

All that is rather obvious. What you don't get is motivation and subtext.
I'll decline to spell it out directly because I feel you should figure it out.

Thanks for the advice, but I'll keep my analytical mind for something more analytically challenging and rewarding.

But you don't even understand this movie. So, I doubt you'll get more challenging ones. I'm deliberately not decoding it for you.

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