Céline Sciamma - Writer and director of Water Lilies
Synchronized swimmers are soldiers who look like dolls. On the surface they have to pretend that they don’t suffer, with all the makeup and the fake smile, whereas underwater/underneath they painfully struggle with the element. Synchronized swimming is about pretending, it’s about hiding the pain and the sacrifice you go through to be officially gracious.
Yo podría agregar que con soldados asi no me importaría ir a la guerra :D