Sexual desire is the driving force of mankind, and no one can deny it. Even if civilized society takes care of it and avoids talking about it, sex is the power of life, driven by human desire. And sex is not a standardized and single form. There are sexes between men and women, as well as same-sex, cross-age, pedophile, fetish, SM, and so on. Freud tried to use sex to explain all human behavior and also recognized the importance of sex.
After the feminist movement, or the wave of feminism, women are bolder to fight for their sexual rights, hoping to achieve freedom through unrestricted enjoyment of sex. In the movie, Joe always satisfies herself through sex. Sex can give her insight into people's hearts, and can fill the sadness of losing loved ones, as well as the omnipresent loneliness and loneliness. She worked so hard to maintain her right to enjoy sex, and even lost her excitement after experiencing love, but she never gave up looking for "lost climax." In order to hold on to her sexual desire and enjoyment, she slowly walked towards the dark. She tried SM first, and got excited by torturing her body. For this feeling, she gave up her lover and son. Sex makes her forget loneliness temporarily, get satisfaction and happiness, but sex makes her lose more happiness. In the beginning, she truly enjoyed sex, but in the end, she was sex for the sake of sex and became a slave to sex.
The various dog-blood experiences that followed made her even more desperate. Love is not allowed, and because of excessive abuse and indulgence, her genitals are almost abolished. In the end, she discovered that the girl she had cultivated and had a homosexual relationship with her was actually getting along with the man she loved, so her murderous intentions came to a halt. However, she couldn't kill her, but she was insulted by two people. Two people who had enjoyed her body had sex in front of her, and they still had sex with her before. After that, the girl urinated on her.
"Fill My Hole!" Joe uses his body to enjoy all kinds of men. She doesn't care about these men. They are just tools to fill her holes and satisfy her sexual desire. She has no sense of moral shame, she feels it is innocent, she is naturally addicted to sex, and there is nothing wrong with satisfying her desires. Everyone is different, why can't she keep her difference?
I also think she is right and innocent. But she had forgotten that when she used a man to fill the hole, she was also being consumed by the man. The body was consumed for this desire, and in the end she had to bear it. And sex can satisfy people for a while, but it cannot be completely and eternally satisfied. If a person cannot face his own fragility, incompetence and loneliness, he can only fall into a bottomless pit and sink deeper and deeper.
In the end, Joe realized this. What she asked for from others and drew the juice of life was not the ultimate happiness. She stood on a lone rock in the mountains, looking into the distance, and there was an ugly and weird dead tree next to it. She is like this dead tree. When she has experienced the peak of life, the emerald green leaves have fallen out, leaving only withered. This dead tree is what her soul looks like, her soul, so lonely, so out of place. Eternal loneliness, she can only deal with it by herself. And she decided to use all the power, the power of a man, to conquer herself, resist sexual desire, and be the master of her own body, instead of being restrained by sexual desire and living a more and more degenerate life.
Can she do it? She turned off the light and slept in peace, thinking that when she wakes up, she will have a new life.
Who knows, the insidious director made the old man, Joe, who has been listening patiently, think that her first friend in her life, did something unsightly. The old man opened the door, bare butt, and climbed onto Joe's bed. "Didn't you say you did it with thousands of men? What does it have to do?" Joe resisted, this is the first time she has said no to sex. The gunfire sounded, and Ben was thankful that Joe, who didn't have to be a murderer, killed the old man in order to resist the sexual assault. It's ironic, no wonder the audience thinks that there is no gleam in despair! But it is not surprising that people cannot escape, suppress and negate. Maugham wrote a short story in which a preacher man wanted to transform a woman who betrayed her body, but was unable to resist the desire for sex and fell, and finally felt guilty and committed suicide. The temptation of sex is too great, it is almost the original sin of mankind.
Joe was lonely in the end, she didn't get understanding, her life had no light. She tried to use sex to get freedom and happiness, but when it didn't work, she decided not to indulge, but was regarded as a slut who could have sex. Women always bear the stigma of "female" and their wishes have been disobeyed. This shows how vulnerable and unforgivable women are in society. What the old man said also revealed the perception of the whole society. He believed that a slut must be slutty, once and forever, sluts do not need to understand. Why is the young lady being raped and murdered without sympathy? Why is the sexy girl being violated, but people say "dressing so sexy and making it up for themselves" is probably this kind of psychology.
In general, defending sexual freedom is the crudest form of feminism, but it is impossible to fundamentally obtain women's rights and freedoms. On the one hand, social consciousness, morality, and the mainstream of authority will hinder women's indulgence in various ways; on the other hand, sex does not allow women to be equal, but is merely consumed and consumed by the body. Sex is short-lived, wild release, love is long-lasting, sometimes painful gaze. Love is not only loving others, but also loving oneself, respecting and loving oneself calmly.
Movies do not give women hope, but it does not mean that there is no hope in reality. Have courage, wisdom and reason, love yourself instead of selfishness, start from loving yourself and love the world. People learn how to understand themselves and how to get healthy happiness throughout their lives. And power always comes from the heart.
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