Fanda is a sexy, beautiful middle-aged woman. Her initial embarrassment made Kushsky ignore her beauty. As a woman, she is passive and in a weak position. The heroine of Venus in Furs, Madame Vanda Dunaye, is a powerful, controlling woman who uses her beauty to subdue men. The Count Alexis played by Kushsky is a "power man" who respects secular morality on the surface, but is a very greedy and perverted instinctive animal on the inside. As Foucault mentioned in his theory of power, "Our society has tried to build barriers to suppress sexual desire, but this barrier is too strict and too general, and the result is an explosion of sexual inversion and long-term sexual instinct. Perverted. Instead, such a society breeds a certain type of power over the body and sex."
Fandral and Kushski are the epitome of Mrs. Fandral and Earl Alex, who constantly assimilate with their characters while performing. "There is the most basic opposition between power and love...power has the stimulation and pleasure of sex." Kushsky is a person who enjoys this kind of stimulation and pleasure very much, and constantly sinks in his own desires. Vanda was just a "victim" at first, and she felt it was "sexist". She said: "Fanda is an innocent woman who has encountered a person with abnormal sexual desire." However, she is not willing to be in a weak position all the time, and she is not willing to be a "plaything" for men's desires, so she wants to reverse the situation. As can be seen in the changing relationship between Vanda and Kushsky, the leadership of the two exchanged. When Fanda first met the Count, she adopted the honorific title "Master", which was her "submission" to power. When the Count wanted to get Fanda, he had to fulfill Fanda's request, calling her "Master" because he couldn't resist the temptation that desire brought him and enjoyed it. "There is nothing in this world that is more obvious, more complicated, or more clearly restrained by discourse and institutions than sexual discourse." At this time, their "love" has become an excuse for power and desire. Power is no longer a matter of controlling life and death, but gradually transformed into an act of controlling life. "Power is a mode of action that is not exerted directly and immediately on another person. Rather, it is an action that acts upon the actions of others, an action that affects possible or actual, future or current actions. behavior."
In general, "men believe that women can only enjoy sex if they see men as masters." And Alex is an instinctive pervert, a "masochist." His obsession with Vanda stems from that "fur". Freud once said: "The wide range of interests and activities characteristic of neurotic and perverted sex can be traced back to the natural sexuality of childhood." Fur" desire. His childhood cravings were unsatisfied and repressed for a long time, resulting in a stronger desire. Fanda protested: "He forced her to play a game of power and responsibility." Kushsky urged her to "focus on your desires." Obviously, just as the Count became the "slave" of Fandra, he also became the "slave" of power and desire.
The ending of the movie feels like a verdict on Kushsky. He was addicted to his own desires and could not extricate himself. He's an excuse-maker, and that's what Fanda hates the most about him. Vanda's hatred for Count Alex (Kushsky) didn't happen overnight. At the beginning of the play, Vanda told Kushsky: "The greatest cruelty to a man is to be betrayed by a woman. Worse for a woman is forced loyalty." . At this time, the evil has been planted. Even so, Kushsky defended himself time and time again. "Rumours say she is my slave, but in fact she has control over me," he said. And Fanda retorted: "He kept saying that she had power and he had no power. The more he said, the more he actually controlled." It's all a vicious circle, and ultimately Kushsky's coercion on Fanda leads to Fanda's betrayal of him.
In fact, whether it is Mrs. Fanda or Earl Alex, they are all doing things according to their own desires. There is no real domination and domination between them. Because they are all slaves of desire and are dominated by desire.
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