If you don't understand it, I don't have the time or the intellectual energy to stand here and tell you verbally what it's about. If it doesn't work for you, I'm sorry, but I'm not making it for the entire world. The audience applauded, because clearly it was such an aggressive, inflammatory question. At SIFF, the film provoked similarly polarized reactions, with people either hating it or finding themselves haunted by the film's images. Figgis himself doesn't think Sexual Innocence is difficult to understand.
Every story is pretty straightforward.
I do think there's an internal dialogue with the audience. But the film's not 'about' that. Any single story can be explained logically, I think. I hope nothing's too enigmatic. It's about the accumulation of those images, how they make you feel, and what resonances you have for some of them.