 The Wachowskis describe several themes present in Bound . They say that the film is about " the boxes people make of their lives " , that it is not only gay people who " live in closets " . They wanted to define all of Bound 's characters by the " sort of trap that they were making out of their lives " . Violet is trapped in her life with Caesar , and in the first scene , Corky is literally inside Violet 's closet , bound and gagged by Caesar . This scene is echoed later in the film when Violet says " I had this image of you inside of me ... " This theme of being trapped is exacerbated by the claustrophobic feeling created by the fact that most of the film takes place in Corky 's apartment , Violet and <unk> 's apartment , or the apartment next door where Corky is working . 
