culture

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then, by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that others may experience the same feeling, this is the activity of Art.

The simulacrum is never what hides the truth-it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

In this scene, is unclear if Nomi (and Berkley) is so immersed in genuine passion that she has lost all control in her body or if she is so focused on her performance she has lost all sense of the erotic; it is this paradoxical state of being that disorients the viewer.