These scenes are super sad in context, particularly the first one where they are dancing with the red lights. These are Betty’s supressed desires for love and a way to escape her lonely reality.
In the first one, she is in a horrible double date where the dude she’s with, Rafael, barely even bothers to disimulate how much he dislikes her. He’s not even kind enough to look at her when she speaks or to follow the conversation. He frequently leaves, coughes, lies and turns around to ignore her.
This poor woman DREAMS of finding love, but all she finds is Rafaels who don’t even look at her because of her apparence. She’s uncomfortable and sad and slapped in the face with the perceived reality that she’s unworthy of love. Her biggest dream will forever be denied and she’ll have to conform herself with being useful and productive instead of loved and loving someone.
So what does she do? She imagines she finds love. She takes Armando’s kindness, protection, trust and reliance on her and clings to it because she knows that’s all she would ever get in life. She fantasizes with it being more. She idealizes him in her head, seeing a soft romantic man that will sweep her off her feet.
Armando in reaity is none of that. He protects her and trusts her, that’s true; they do have a real bond.
But she has to idealize him in order to protect herself. It’s her only consolation in a lonely life where all she wants is love.
Betty’s true goal was always love, and it’s the thing she knows she’ll never have.
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