Obscure Object

1) The title of the movie, The Obscure Object of Desire is a difficult title to seperate in to meaning. The obscure object is sex. Throughout the movie, Matt is driven by the great desire to have Conchitta, to have sex with her and to simply physically posses her. He pretty much does anything for her and for her family. He gives them loads and loads of money and buys her a house and treats them with the greatest compassion. He is patient and just tries to remember that he really really wants to have sex with her. This is kind of obscure only because it is so powerful and it is something that he can not get out of his mind. Nothing else really will do that to a person.
3) The director probably uses two actresses for a few different reasons. However, if I remember correctly, one of the actress was the one that was nude, the other one did the dialouge scenes. Perhaps theses actresses are just both good at different things. Dancing for instance, was a neccessity for one of the characters. It could have been simply a logical, movie making decision.
6) There is deffinelty some themes of Celestina floating throughout this movie. For instance, the love versus lust factor. Matt does not actually love her, yet he is in love her with her body and her sex. He wants her in the physical sense, not the emotional sense. She knows this and uses it very well. She also pretends that she does not want him in any way through her dialouge, but it is apparent through her actions that she does want him. These are tell tale Celestina trademarks. Lastly, we see that there is some sewing in the film, which is a big part of Celestina. It is symbology, sewing up the virgin, etc etc.