Triptych

At writing group, the question of attraction and sexual desire was one of the big nature/nurture questions we argued (see yesterday's post).

I watched Dopamine on IFC over the weekend. (Unlike the one reviewer, I thought Sabrina Lloyd was well cast and the acting finely done.) It's a story about love, but also about our relationship to such a complex human emotion, using a computer-generated pet and a mother with Alzheimer's to explore the question. I would recommend the film.

I ran across this NYTimes article about the chemistry of romantic love, saying that in its initial stages, new love resembles several mental illnesses in its effects in the brain.