No wonder Soderbergh is so famous.
I watched his "Girlfriend On Call" last year and enjoyed his grim shots and quiet narrative. This work has a bit of Woody Allen's flavor, but less mischievous humor and more cold criticism.
Logically, the film is quite clear, so clear that it corresponds exactly to the title of the film. The content is three themes: sex, lies, videotape. The characters lie for the sake of sex, and the truth brings people relief. Among the four protagonists, Ann lied to avoid sex, Graham avoided sex in order to correct the habit of lying, John lied to have sex, Cynthia lied to her sister Ann indirectly through silence while not deceiving herself. . Another character who didn't appear, Elizabeth, also lied to maintain her position of purity in Graham's heart without delaying her affair with John. So all the characters live a life of lies, and the videotape as a metaphor takes on the responsibility of the medium to lead everyone to the truth, to debunk the lies, to put the truth of sex in the sun -- and as a result, it's not all that scary. Although weaving lies to cover up our sexual psychology is an innate instinct of people, it is still difficult for me to understand the deep principles of this instinct with my current ignorance. This deep-rooted shame can only be explained by the apple that Eve stole. Why are we humans so dirty? In contrast, dogs are ten thousand times purer than us.
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