Thought about this the other day. It was when my ex and I got back together for the second time and it was all going good after all the chaos of our previous break up and the beginning of my BPD symptoms which I still didn't get diagnosed for or understand...I invited him over to watch 'The Ring' which he had never seen. He watched it, instead of just getting scared of the movie, he started asking me if I was showing him this movie so he could understand that I was actually pretty much the same as the girl in The Ring. Like, he looked at me with these big caring eyes and said 'Are you showing me this because you want me to get you a bit more? That is so sweet...I love you'. I have never been so taken aback. I mean, the girl from The Ring?? Really?? He wasn't scared off or anything, he just thought it was my way of trying to open up about myself...because you know, I'm clearly the type to haunt and kill people through a video tape.
A similar thing happened a couple of months later when I showed him that movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and he turned to me again and said 'you are just like her!! You are her! Are you showing me this because you are her?' It even happened when I showed him that movie Shutter Island and he thought I was trying to tell him I was the crazy wife who killed her children, but that time, he got all scared of me and thought I was literally going to kill his future children and I was trying to communicate that to him...
I gave up trying to show him movies after that *sigh* 
And no, I never was trying to subliminally communicate to him about me through film. 
