Why would the writers convolute the scene like that? That's just unnecessarily confusing for ppl, if they went with anything other than the obvious here. Most ppl here, and Im sure most ppl in general, know she was simply talking about the wine. Anything else is just overly complicated for what the scene is: just a simple date night together sharing wine.
Because good writing is multi layered. And that's the way flirting works. Words that mean one thing in one context mean another thing in the context of flirting.
Let's talk about a truly great writer.
When I first went to college I thought the love of Shakespeare was snobbery. "Oh, yeah, some old dead white guy. People just think he's great because he's difficult to understand" But good bhaal was I wrong.
The truly wonderful thing about S. - besides his amazing vocabulary - is his ability to sandwich in multiple layers of meaning in just a few sentences. When you really get into S. you will find 2, 3, 4 layers and -- in the case of one sonnet -- 5 layers of meaning. In a single sentence! I've never seen his equal. It's stunning. And of course you ask yourself - am I just imaging this? Can there really be 4 levels of meaning in this sentence?! But then you ask yourself "do I ever find 4 layers of meaning with any other author"? And why do so many scholars agree that there are layers of meaning?
Let's take an example not from a play or poem but from his will. S. left "the second best bed in the house" to his wife. What did that mean? On one level - the surface - it told her what bed she was getting. On another level he was admitting to his infidelity. Now the bit that is debated is: was it an insult or not? Some people argue that it was - he was taking a swipe at wife by telling her that the dark skinned sex worker he liked to visit was the better lover. Others say it was a kindness. In his time, the best bed in the house was reserved for guests and the married couple slept in the second best bed. So perhaps S was saying "I always returned to you, she was just a guest"
One short sentence - three layers of meaning and the third level could mean one two different things but was left deliberately ambiguous. He was amazing. Better than anyone else. Well, perhaps he was a shit husband but his way with words . . .
I won't cost that much to rent Sideways. Do it. Once you start seeing layers of meaning in words new worlds will open to you. You won't be confused, you will have found a new source of pleasure
