What is “Animate” about?
“I hope that it’s going to be clear that it’s about one person. It’s set up on purpose a little bit vague to sound like it might be about a relationship between two people, and almost a love song in a sense. But, that became such a cliche certainly through the ’80s, of the modern sensitive man, and it was wrong in many ways. I draw upon my research, if you like, on this, everywhere from Carl Jung to Camille Paglia, about what the modern man was supposed to be. And to many people in the ’80s, the modern man was supposed to be a woman, and you know, to be sensitive and nurturing, and all, and to completely lose the masculine side of the character, the “animus”. So, just in the reading about that and the thinking about that, and observing certainly people around me, and how they behave and how the pretended to be … how they pretended they really were, and so on. It became a bit of an act of men pretending to be more sensitive than they actually were, and sometimes women pretending to be
