Punch-Drunk Love Easter Egg - The Hand Says It All

Paul Thomas Anderson's films always seem to have an egg in them, and his latest is no different. The egg occurs about 40 minutes into the film. (Warning: This description is going to sound really weird if you haven't seen the movie.) It's during the scene when Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) has just gotten off the phone with a Healthy Choice representative, who has told him that the frequent flier miles he wants to redeem from a Healthy Choice promotional gimmick will take 6-8 weeks to process - not immediately, as he had hoped. He is, of course, heartbroken and absolutely furious, and in his anger, he punches the map on the wall of his office. When he turns back toward the camera and places his now-bruised hand on the harmonium on his desk, check out his knuckles: the bruises clearly spell "LOVE." This makes sense because he was collecting the frequent flier miles to fly to Hawaii with his new girlfriend Lena (Emily Watson). And also consider that the original title for the film was "Punch-Drunk Knuckle Love" - Anderson must have changed the title for a reason, maybe to disguise the egg. (I don't think it's an homage to Robert Mitchum in "Night of the Hunter.")