What struck me the most was the last scene, when Seligman tried to rape Joe, and Joe fired that shot. Seligman has been using a man's perspective to understand Joe's experience throughout the whole process, using music, religion, mathematics, etc. to explain. In the face of Seligman's interruption or even digression, Joe was reluctant to listen. Joe freed himself by speaking to others. Although Seligman says he is asexual and a virgin throughout, he attempts to rape Joe at the end of the film. I think Seligman can be understood as a typical male in a patriarchal society. They are knowledgeable and rational, but they constantly defend patriarchy by constructing various seemingly subtle theories, which is very hypocritical. The large number of men's genitals in the movie is probably because of religion. Freud has a repression saying that girls feel castrated because they find no male genitals, which leads to her negative, inferior and masochistic psychology. Tendency, which is a manifestation of the accepted phallic worship. "but you're fucked thousands of men." Seligman shattered the image he had created of himself in front of him.
Joe is a total feminist.
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