Father takes son to whore house?

I hate to interrupt this fine thread with something on topic but did anyone else think that his whorehouse experience was as imaginary as Malena showing up at his bedroom door in the middle of the night? I was either on to something or awfully confused in this movie... It seems most of the things happened were in his imagination. Have you ever been so obsessed with something/someone it seems as if every life experience is in relation to what you're obsessed with? That's how the boy was. That looked like a pretty big town, I don't think Malena would have been the talk of the town the way she was portrayed in the movie. I don't think people tripped and fell over themselves to get a glimpse of her every time she was out. I don't think the barbershop was full of gossip about her. Maybe a few errant comments about her but the boy imagined as if everyone was as in love with her as he was. There's no way she had 20 people try to light her cigarette, that is just what the boy perceived, fools tripping over themselves because he was in love with her and thought everyone else was as obsessed. The whorehouse, as much a figment of his imagination as Malena showing up at his bedroom door. Another reason I don't believe it real, that was at the time Malena had blonde hair, but in his fantasy she looked just as she did when the boy first saw her. The whole movie was told through the perspective of the young boy, and any time Malena was walking through the town, the director made sure to only show us what the boy was seeing. He would pedal fast from scene to scene and what he envisioned happening, as I took it, was more fantastical than reality.

So I present to you my theory.... It didn't really happen.

I would love to hear your thoughts (or I could droll through this terrible f'ing thread and read who is and isn't repressive in thought, the moral conciousness of western opinions, and other people's viewpoints on their high horses. God, seriously? Most all who opened their mouths in this thread, I see a pattern. You are enlightened and know more than the next person, (groan). And I just have to say to that person speaking about how lucky they are to grow up in a socially conscious society and lashing out against "western thought" and lynching people and everything else (you're not worth my time to go back and look your name up, you've already wasted enough of my time with your trite off topic viewpoints). I would like to say you are the epitome of annoying, congratulations.