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"Secretary"
Director - Stephen Seanberg
Genre - Movie
Personal Rating - 8 points
Individual Views—one
Rebrush index - 80%
Version—107min
The word "sadism" is translated from the English word "sadomasochism", which is a compound word of sadism (willing to be sadistic) and masochism (willing to be masochistic), so sadomasochism is more commonly referred to informally as "SM".
The title of "Bitter Moon" was about "SM". In fact, it seems more appropriate for SM to title this film, but the focus of the two is different. "Bitter Moon" focuses more on sadomasochism in relationships. intertwined, while "Secretary" is more of a physical act.
My understanding of SM is also limited to sexual abuse in a broad sense, and I don’t understand the deeper psychological dynamics of this culture. I only try to understand perception based on the content shown in this film, but the information on both sides of SM is not equal, so More glimpse is the M side.
Sure enough, I forgot where I saw it before. In terms of behavior, S has control, but in consciousness, M has absolute initiative, and M is the actual leader in this type of relationship.
Dedicate my absolute trust, tolerance and tolerance, this body blooms under your hands, this is probably the vortex of M's attraction. Based on a high level of trust, the pleasure of S needs to be given by M to obtain it.
Speaking of this film, starting with a long shot, Lee appeared in a weird posture, walking in various spaces calmly, and a series of actions are familiar. The look and feel at the beginning was very strange, and the interweaving of red and green with low brightness also made people uncomfortable. Visually, the rich and heavy colors made the whole space seem depressing, and as the door slammed shut, the story had just begun.
First of all, I personally think that the use of color in this film has a certain meaning, which is not only reflected in the collision of red and green in the office, but also in Lee's original dress and the color of her room, which is basically purple.
Purple is a mixture of red and blue, half warm and half melancholy, half flamboyant and half depressed, which corresponds to Lee's character.
First of all, we can see the causes of Lee's character from the family relationship, the father who is addicted to alcohol, the mother who is aggressive, and a family environment that is not harmonious is displayed in this way. There are many apt metaphors to describe the status of children in the parental relationship. Buttons, ties, bridges, in short, play the role of "connection". It sounds very good, right? But when a piece of clothing is torn, it is the first to collapse. Isn't it the button that fell off? In all the tears, the "connection" is the first to bear the brunt.
So Lee's behavior is not difficult to understand. I have done similar things in junior high school, so I feel a little empathy. Lee's behavior in the film is also from the first day of junior high, so I guess time is also an important factor in the formation of self-destructive behavior. Adolescence is a An important period in which a person's character concept is shaped. I won't talk about how important it is, it's an afterthought, not a psychology study note.
When the emotions are deeply immersed in anger and pain and have nowhere to vent, there must be a more specific and obvious pain to relieve. In order to suffer less for the soul, we have to let the body suffer more, so that we can balance. So the blue melancholy in the heart, the red scars on the outside, the shyness in character, and the boldness in behavior, neutralize and become such Lee.
I am deeply impressed by the two scenes of the swimming pool. Just like in the film and television, they like to use lighting to form yin and yang faces to metaphorize the inner struggle of the characters or the interplay of good and evil. The three shots in the first swimming pool are very interesting. The first shot Lee is lying on his back and facing the sky. In the second shot, Lee is lying prone and facing the swimming pool. In the third shot, Lee's face is half submerged and half floating on the surface. This is a metaphor for Lee's constant self-harm on the one hand, while maintaining a normal life on the other.
In the second pool shot, after Grey and Lee ended their relationship, Lee sinking into the pool means sinking. Obviously, Grey's punishment can comfort Lee's soul pain more than his own tools, especially after the punishment. Gentle strokes, like a drop of sweet spring in the desert, become more gentle only after roughness.
As for why the scene is set in the swimming pool instead of lighting, I guess it is the nature of the swimming pool or water. Humans cannot breathe normally underwater. Long-term exposure to the water will lead to hypoxia or even drowning. This kind of physiological suffocation To a certain extent, the feeling of depression and psychological distress are related. For example, in some film and television works, when the characters learn some unacceptable news, they will show a big breath when they are extremely angry or sad, that is, Psychological emotions are expressed in physiological responses.
Therefore, I will take facing the water as a metaphor for Lee’s self-destructive behavior in repressing pain, transforming Lee’s inner suffocation into the physical suffocation, and passing the psychological pain to the physical wound, so as to seek inner peace .
But this is just my conjecture, not as a correct interpretation of the film. But when it comes to suffocation, let's add a digression. Anyway, after talking about SM, we will extend it, another minority sexual behavior-"sexual suffocation".
To put it simply, it is to perform sexual behaviors in the state of brain hypoxia to obtain pleasure and sexual satisfaction, but this behavior has certain dangers, and such people also have certain concealment, so they are generally found to be in sexual asphyxiation deaths.
For example, David Carradine, the actor who played Bill in "Kill Bill"; and a case I saw before, where several friends made an appointment to perform sexual suffocation together, but the person responsible for helping them did not help them solve the problem. Personal suffocation; even the Chongqing case was finalized as sexual suffocation.
As for why the title is "punishment", it also stems from a psychological state. There will be a type of people who seek punishment by deliberately making mistakes. Rather than seeking punishment, they seek what is behind the punishment - attention.
For example, some teenagers who did not get enough company from their parents when they were young or were relatively distant, would deliberately provoke their parents' attention; for example, women's "action" in romantic relationships is also a performance of seeking attention; another example is Lee , everything they do is to make the other party notice their mistakes and then implement "punishment". In their view, this kind of punishment is a kind of "care". The punishment is not terrible, but the terrible thing is indifference.
As Grey on the S side, I actually haven't been able to figure it out. I only rely on a few small details to figure out the characters. For example, the red pen symbolizes the desire to punish, while the fitness exercise is the suppression or relief of desire. Grey is also an extremely repressed person, but unlike Lee, his repression comes from himself, from his restraint and demands on himself. Through the film, it can be seen that he is a person who is extremely self-controlled, and from Lee The power of control is actually the release of self-control, and in the resounding slap after slap, the desire is vented.
Although Lee is a weak M party on the surface, Grey is the real coward. He cannot accept himself, struggles with desire and restraint, and is even cowardly to quit the relationship. Fortunately, Lee is firm enough and persistent. In the final game, Grey Tender surrender, but he also got win-win love.
Btw, Mrs. Grey's light eyelashes are so charming!
shadow
2019.5.3
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