With the one guy it is obviously a dominance thing. Although he looks totally foolish and ironically very impotent trying to "dominate" a small, sleeping girl. With the other guy it might be intimacy, but it is also totally impassive and obviously unreciprocated.
I don't think this is a movie about sex. I think it is about impotent rage and sadness on the male end and about a troubled young woman who is only powerful WHEN she's asleep on the female end.
As a male, you can certainly look at Emily Browning sleeping naked and think that you just really want to put your dick in her. But there is something greater there, a haunting BEAUTY that absolutely cannot be touched or "penetrated".
"I don't think this is a movie about sex. I think it is about impotent rage and sadness on the male end and about a troubled young woman who is only powerful WHEN she's asleep on the female end."
I agree with you to a point, in that it's about male aging and the impotent rage and sadness that can cause. I also think it was about a very troubled young woman, but disagree that she's powerful when she's asleep.