Unconscious repression and conscious lies

Giovani 2022-04-20 09:01:50

In order to learn from the director's "space-time reshaping" method, the first seven minutes of the film, without any narration explanation and without any plot lay out, completely and truly show the current situation of a family and the relationship between family members and family members. The betrayal, alienation, and communication barriers. After watching the whole film, it was handled calmly, even the ending. The male and female protagonists were sitting on the stairs, and it started to rain. At the beginning of the film, the heroine An said that she didn’t care about sex. Later This is not the case for Glenn's desire, and Glenn has said before that Ann cares about others seeing her, so it can be imagined that Ann subconsciously suppressed her sexual desire and talked about sex. Falling in love leaves a huge shadow, wrongly thinking that sex is an important way to understand women, and he did not express this feeling in the correct way before, this idea subconsciously led to his impotence, and for nine years, he began to use Videotaped interviews record women's conversations about sex, trying to understand women and show Elizabeth a changed version of herself. Both characters are unconsciously repressed sexually. In the end, they are attracted to each other, and this repression is right. Release. And the other two characters, Ann's sister, a bohemian ''bad woman''. Ann's husband, an arrogant lawyer, has indulgent sexual desires, and the two often cheat, regardless of family ethics. Because in reality this is not allowed, so lies are born. The lies of the two made Ann think that she was living a peaceful and ordinary married life until the lie was finally revealed. And John and Elizabeth's lies led Glenn to believe that his sexuality was the reason for the breakdown. When all the lies are revealed, the characters begin to face sex correctly

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Sex, Lies, and Videotape quotes

  • [John said he wasn't fucking Cynthia]

    Ann: You never used to say the word "fucking."

  • [Accepting John's claim that he's not cheating on her]

    Ann: I've just got all this time on my hands, and I just sit around and start inventing these, like, intricate scenarios...

    [giggles]

    Ann: And then I don't want to have wasted all my time, so I want to believe in them.