A bit of a male perspective. Although I am a male, I am very worried about the female viewing experience.
Shanghai is beautiful.
I saw the movie intermittently at three o'clock in the night, and after watching it, I lay in bed and shed tears for a while.
I want to change the computer. The computer I like is very expensive, but I can wait for the official refurbished computer, and I can wait forever. But what about the woman I like? She is also very expensive, is she "renovating" after waiting for ten or twenty years? Will I still accept it?
This is the previous words.
This movie reminds me a lot of things. The previous movie was Zizek's guide to the ideology of perverts. So the words "desire", "masturbation", "language", "ideology" and so on circulated in my mind. A word from Gadamer: Language is the only existence that can be recognized. Lacan's view that infant finger sucking is also a masturbation behavior has given me enlightenment. There is also ideological theory, Marxism of the psychoanalytic school.
Therefore, Samantha never appeared in physical form in the movie, which is a very good setting.
I was surprised for the first time. From the forty-two minutes to the forty-fourth minute of the movie, Samantha made love with Theodore for the first time. At that section, there was a black screen and there was only sound. I got goose bumps all over my body. What I think at this time is that masturbation usually involves closing your eyes.
Surprised for the second time, Samantha wanted to use the human body to achieve her contact with Theodore. Theodore felt weird all the time. When the passionate caressing, Theodore turned his back to Ilibesa and closed his eyes. And when Samantha asked Ilibesa to turn around and ask Theodore to look at her, Theodore hesitated. He said it was strange and shouldn't be like this. The corners of Ilibesa's mouth trembled, and the passion stopped abruptly. .
Desire itself is chaotic. When God says there is light, there is light in the world. Language gives the dimension of desire. But this is not enough. Human existence is not only a language, but also an image. Although the form of language is higher than the image, to a certain extent, the image is out of language. Language gives the dimension of desire, and language also gives the dimension of image. The language established after being separated from the original image dominates language and desire.
Masturbation is self-consolation and self-entertainment. The object to be stimulated and the pleasure caused must be the most physiologically prioritized organs and feelings at this stage. The oral period in infancy, the anal period in childhood, and the reproductive organs after puberty.
So Theodore, the star of the film, has been in a state of masturbation, and he has fallen in love with himself. Although for ideological theory, desire itself has no dimension, bourgeoisie disguises some specific things as the "target" of desire by compiling, thereby guiding people's desire to go, and at the same time making people confined to the desire to be ideological. The specific "targets" of the people, and the other desires that have been neglected behind them are abundant and abundant. It's like I deliberately attracted your attention to make you look at something, and there is only this thing in your eyes, and all other things have become the background of this thing, ignored and blurred by you. So Marx said that commodities are not just objects, but human relations behind them, and further said that commodities are a kind of religion.
But in terms of epistemology, we cannot deny the isomorphic relationship between people and things in human knowledge. If you want to know something, you must be attracted and concentrated by something, limited by something, or even materialized or alienated. Although whether it can come out is a question of reason and the latter, it is personally impossible for me to solve the former problem. For the latter question, the ultimate social form proposed by Marx is either a possibility or just a theory. I have no idea.
So Theodore's masturbation is not all his personal behavior, just like watching porn, there must be a stimulus. Samantha is this stimulus. She met all the conditions. That is, all the man’s fantasy, yes fantasy, the image induced by desire in his mind. Therefore, it is very wonderful that Samantha does not appear in physical form. In this way, Theodore can set Samantha's image according to his own desires and fantasies. This is completely his "personal customization" thing, and it is completely. His own happiness, the deepest soul, the deepest desires. Everyone is different, everyone’s soul, desire, and birth fantasy are different, everyone’s g-spot is different, but masturbation is one's own sexual behavior with oneself, oneself indulged in one's own fantasy, It is a state of complete self-extension, exposure, self-satisfaction, and freedom. It is exclusive, incomprehensible and inexplicable, only one can understand and explain, or to be precise, only one can feel it, because this state has transcended language, it is image versus image, desire versus desire The existence of, cannot be measured by explanation and understanding, it is a state of the most primitive, self-partial, most harmonious, satisfying, and safe.
If specific objects are not surpassed by the masturbator, but are confined to the image of specific things, problems will arise. If you watch pornography too seriously, you will lose your sexual desire. The pornography wants to be true, and real pornography will not make people feel sexual desire. This is the paradox and root failure of pornography.
Therefore, the two fragments I mentioned above that surprised me are simply magical.
Ilibesa gave Theodore a realistic image of Samantha, and this image is external or imposed, and it is impossible to realize Theodore’s inner fantasy setting of Samantha, because of this. This kind of setting can only exist in Theodore's fantasy. The actual concrete image of things will restrain the subject, the subject will be materialized, and the subject will lose itself. Theodore presents Ilibesa instead of Samantha. This kind of sex, or masturbation, is bound to be stifled.
It's like you imagine an actress who can masturbate, and when this actress appears in front of you, it will cause you to suddenly become weak due to various practical problems, such as yellow teeth, dry and split hair, and a full face. Oily, rough skin, thick thighs, pungent cosmetic smell, even sound, etc.
People who are addicted to masturbation always have a rich imagination and a delicate and sensitive heart. This point is actually problematic, that is, masturbation requires fantasizing about the opposite sex, but the actual situation is how can a person fantasize about the opposite sex in such detail? There must be a problem here, or Freud and Lacan can explain it, so I won't talk about it here. And as mentioned above, like pornography, masturbators also face a problem, that is, to fantasize about the opposite sex and be meticulous, but too meticulous is to lose sexual desire, and without meticulousness, sexual desire will not be strong.
The advantage of this film lies in the existence of an external Samantha, which appropriately blocks the excessively detailed sexual fantasies that Theodore will produce. What is at work here is the language, which is not so detailed and not so vague. . All the conditions are met, so this fantasy love can be deep and lasting.
But it's not just sexual desire. If it's just this, this film shouldn't be shot like this, nor can it highlight the extremely subtlety of Samantha's setting, and it can't reflect the special nature of language. Place.
Just thinking about the above, the language is not so detailed and clear, not so vague, just to satisfy Theodore's fantasy, Theodore is obviously in love with himself. And the unforgettable thing about this love is that language is used to communicate between people and the world. Here, Theodore used this self-language, an instinctively happy language that satisfies his own subject’s unique fantasy, and connects the world with the West. Otto's heart is organized and becomes a humanized existence, that is, the world is Theodore's world, he is happy, not in an externally opposed world, but is his own unique, exclusive and unshareable world. A kind of selfless fusion, the original happiness, a kind of "existence" in the true sense.
This is also the reason why Samantha and Theodore experienced a more spiritual, linguistic, romantic relationship after experiencing physical problems.
However, there is still a contradiction here, that is, the real world is ultimately material, substantive, or "objective" as Marx called (applicable to consciousness and system). Samantha couldn't escape this after all, and Theodore couldn't escape his reality, his body after all. He felt extremely jealous, absurd and deceived when he knew that Samantha was sharing. Samantha said that she belongs to everyone and his, which is very confusing and incomprehensible. Just like a replica of the mechanical age, you say it’s yours and it’s yours, and you say it’s everyone’s as well as everyone’s. Although this is all false.
Samantha is evolving, reason and sensibility are evolving, she really loves Theodore, it is true love, but this kind of love can no longer exist in the real world, it must go to extinction, or to put it better, to the noble. sacred. This may also be the fate of mankind. At the same time, human beings cannot exist by masturbation.
When human beings break away from the primitive state, they are satisfied when they break away from the state of being identical and satisfied with the world, language gives people comfort, although language deceives and conceals people through deception and false satisfaction, which makes people think that they exist. . But apart from that, we have no other way to make ourselves and the world identical. We are cut, fragmented, opposed to the world, opposed to ourselves, and language is our "medicine."
Theodore may be awakened, and Samantha let him distinguish what is illusory and what is real. The world, his body and history appeared in front of him in a brand new face.
This is a high-level masturbation film from the development of mankind to this day. It uses the form of love and language to show a soul’s masturbation behavior. Perhaps according to the Marxist point of view, it is to criticize the birth of capitalism, which is out of reality. Negative thinking that is indulging in fantasy, but this is actually a way of existence that we humans cannot escape and cannot be resolved.
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