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Breathless is fundamentally about cowardliness, disloyalty, and the difficulty of being who we pretend to be. Both Michel and Patricia pretend to be things that they are not. Michel is a French man who desperately seeks to be American, which is one of the main reasons for his relationship with Patricia, and Patricia is an American woman that wants to be French. Michel idolizes Humphrey Bogart, who is a great American actor, and he even does things just like him. There is one scene where Michel stops and stares at a Humphrey Bogart poster in admiration. Throughout the movie he also continually rubs his lips with his fingers, which is something stolen right from Humphrey Bogart. Patricia does not know what the lip rubbing means at the end, which demonstrates that she tries to keep her self as far from American culture as possible and she wants, badly, to be French. Why is it that although M