...the banal terror of a marriage in disconnect.
Cassavetes' thesis that you can love a person but not be able to live with them in Faces and Love Streams
I couldn't connect with the piñata, rather, I couldn't break it open, the dog in the dream not deterred or hurt by the blows I inflicted on it, like a piñata on its string swinging and spinning as each blow that does connect is still not the right way to burst it open.