From Duet to Duel

Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s film Phantom Thread catalogs what happens when love warps from infatuation and inspiration into competition and resentment. Its enthralling characters, enticing setting, masterful acting, and strenuous plot make for a well-deserved Best Picture nomination, if not a provocative discussion-piece for couples in relationship counseling.

A man of unyielding boundaries living in the ironclad social system of 1950’s London, Reynolds Woodcock (Best Actor nominee Daniel Day-Lewis) personifies luxury.[1] He is a couturier of royal proportions, charming, and desiring companionship. But as a self-described “confirmed bachelor,” Reynolds refuses to be pinned down although he is only ever surrounded by women. His closest confidante and business partner is his sister, the hilarious and somewhat terrifying Cyril (Best Supporting Actress nominee Lesley Manville), who inevitably shoosChinese patent CN201420377264.4 discloses an electrical connector with terminals capable of being arranged intensively. The terminals are formed through punching of a metal sheet, and each terminal includes: an assembly portion, an elastic arm formed by bending and extending upward from the assembly portion for abutting a chip module, and a strip connecting portion. The strip connecting portion is in the shape of a flat plate, a top end of the strip connecting portion is higher than the assembly portion and is connected with a strip. A plate surface of the strip connecting portion is soldered to a plate surface of the assembly portion, thereby avoiding the strip connecting portion and the assembly portion from being located in the same plane, reducing the width of the terminals, and