it should be the easiest thing in the world", but she isn't even sure how to achieve .
this, her first scene in the film as a child is one where she is performing in a play. .
She has lived a life of pretence for so long that she doesn't even know who she .
is or what she wants anymore. She lives a lie, the commentary running over the .
whole film shows she still can't bring herself to be herself, she says one thing but .
the reality contradicts it. .
The start of Robert and Diana's relationship is sexy and adulterous. It slowly .
becomes more and more conventional as it develops but Christie seems scared .
of this. She becomes frightened of anything changing and of Roberts constant.
link back to his old wife and is scared of "being so happy" with him. The scene in .
which she goes to the phone box opposite Roberts house to spy on what life he .
has outside there own with his wife, clearly communicates her irrational thoughts .
and feelings at the time she falls in love with Robert and how love can fill you .
with strange emotion which takes over anything clear in your mind. .
The sequence begins with a shot of a lady in a garden with two children. The .
camera moves out to reveal Christie in the phone box with a pair of binoculars .
spying on her. Schlesinger uses a long shot; with the woman in the background .
to indicate Diana's distance from this conventional life-style going on at "Jasper .
House". It contrasts the conventionality and the unconventionality of the two .
women's lives. The fact that she is behind the windowpanes of the telephone .
box almost looks like bars, or a barrier, to keep Scott away and show she is not .
part of this life. The shot also acts as a metaphor of how this will always remain .
in the back of her mind. It now becomes clear to the audience that this is in fact .
Robert's family and Christie's voice-over reveals the thought of breaking up a .
family "horrified" Diana, families seemed so "unbreakable".