The bold visual style and sound design are intended to molest and unsettle a voyeuristic audience who are witness to the privacy of a character’s sexual subconscious.
But ideally if you can look at a native speaker and just observe how they use their face, let your unconscious mind absorb the rules, then you're going to be able to pick it up.
Want to find that sweet spot where it's there, and you see that it's in 3D and it's impacting you, usually at a subconscious level, but it's not a gimmick.
And although we feel the sadness and the sorrow in our bones, we should remember that this feeling is in many ways collective, that this sorrow takes deep roots in our collective unconscious.
Ford asks us to question unconscious beliefs, to realize that we almost never do so, to understand that the simplest choices are charged with meaning, and yet that meaning can and does change all the time.