Walking on the overpass on Austin Road, I was still exuding body heat that was not commensurate with the cold wind after midnight. Looking around the audience who left the venue together, an illusion of hunger and green eyes was coming so fiercely that they even wanted to bite off their fingers to satisfy themselves-whether it was a couple walking next to me or my own.
Although more than 30 people left early during the screenings at the Gothenburg Film Festival in Sweden, and some vomited and fainted, more viewers should be in the same position as me in the first ten minutes after watching "Raw Eat". In the state of excitement. The cannibal experience brought by the movie is immersive. The soundtrack is based on psychedelic electronic style combined with the treacherous and dark picture. The vision and hearing are greatly satisfied, but it is difficult to fill the seduced by the movie. Cannibalism came out.
The Hong Kong version of the translation of "Bloodthirsty Maturity Ceremony" accurately summarizes the theme of the film. This film depicts Justine's Maturity Ceremony, which is carried out by the intersection of cannibalistic awakening and sexual awakening.
Justine, a vegan girl since she was born, obeys the waiter in the restaurant, obeys the senior students, obeys her sister Alexia, who has the opposite of her weak personality, and dares not even defy the professor who lowered her score for no reason. She is smart, introverted, and non-aggressive. Sexual top students. But life in the veterinary medical school is not easy. As a first-year freshman, he has to go through various torture rituals, not only the baptism of animal blood bashing his head and face, but also the regulations to eat the internal organs. In order to obey the environment, Justine is forced to go to Putting a bloody rabbit waist in his mouth broke the vegetarian family tradition led by his parents. But under the appearance of her herbivore, she had a bloodthirsty impulse for the first time. The meat provides pleasure to Justine.
From not daring to resist the seniors wearing shame cloth to actively borrowing the standard equipment from the nightclub from the sister, from the pink cheeks with two or three pimples to the lipsticks on the mirror with heavy makeup, from listening to classical instrumental music to playing hardcore hip-hop. Dancing fanatically, from the lush body hair between the eyebrows, the armpits, and the lower body to the meticulous trimming, from the shy revealing the identity of the virgin to the spring love for the roommates, this radical and violent change can be said to be deliberately guided by the sister Alexia and the male Unintentionally seduced by gay roommates.
Compared with Justine, a safe and harmless little sheep, Alexia, as a second-year medical student, appeared as a rebel and indulgence. After the accidentally clipped finger was eaten by her hungry and dizzy sister, Alexia did not She didn't show much shock, because she had already walked far on the road of cannibalism. She took Justine to the uninhabited suburbs near the school and showed her a thrilling hunt. When she bent down and started to chew the face of the prey, the scene of scarlet blood flowing from her mouth was sent to Justine. A tempting invitation to eat.
At first glance, the relationship between these sisters is very alienated. Alexia is jealous that his sister is a genius girl. After she was born, she lost some of her favorites, but she also sneered at her conformity. Not only did she not stand up for the bullied sister, but instead let her. Make a fool of yourself in front of everyone; but Justine thinks that the elder sister who lives unscrupulously is the darling of the family. In fact, the relationship between them is spiral, about to separate at one point of contradiction, and entangled again at another point. After biting like carnivores competing for territory, the sisters became more intimate than ever because of the same bloodthirsty impulse.
The director’s feminist inclination is particularly exposed in the role of Alexia. From the outside, she combs a man’s head with a big back and is tall. In terms of behavior, Alexia has a tough character, and she even urinates while standing. Judged as extremely unfriendly, her sister is full of aggressiveness like a patriarchal society, and she has a hermaphrodite temperament.
Mainstream Hollywood movies usually use female characters as sexual exhibits. The only male character that this French film focuses on is treated as a spectacle. Justine’s roommate Adrien played a role only to foil her. Awakening and growth. More ingeniously, he was also designated as a gay man, which greatly weakened the aggressiveness of male characters in universal values.
The male image in the film is active and is shaped to be recognized by the audience; the female image in the mainstream film is passive, and the way of presentation is entirely for male visual entertainment. Through this male active/female passive means of film ideology, male audiences have also produced a spiritual victory that can conquer women.
Female images like Bond girls are categorized by the male "gaze"—the decisive male projects his fantasy on these characters and creates these female objects according to his needs.
This is the opposite in "Raw Eat". Watching the semi-nude shots of Adrien from Justine's perspective in the movie has no meaning other than the way the heroine’s sexual desire is expressed, and at the same time as an audience in the audience. The sexual desire object does not even interact and dialogue with other male characters. No need for him to think, nor express his personal pursuits and motives, the director just created a male "vase" role based on the need to shape the heroine, which is really subversive and ridiculous.
Here the director is afraid that the audience will not understand that Justine has turned into a dominator, so a sex scene destined to be a "female superior" pose set off the climax of the whole movie. In the process of Justine’s destruction, you can see how she transformed from a recipient to an attacker, and the awakened sexual desire and appetite are fully expressed. Justine is like a beastly leopard girl, who wants to devour her life to make Adrien alive. It was like being raped in this sex.
Power is the best aphrodisiac, and dominating others is a great pleasure.
The PS ending is too ironic and enjoyable. The setting that the husband is the food captured by the wife and raised in captivity makes the entire patriarchal society shudder.
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