Love Lace: Cover Girl in the Era of Sexual Liberation

In the 1950s in the United States, McCarthyism prevailed in politics, the entire social atmosphere was oppressive and dull, ideas tended to be conservative, and the cultural industry became popular, which to a certain extent hindered the development of ideals. In the 1960s and 1970s, hippies became the anti-heroes of the American counterculture. They took on the Frankfurt School's criticism of popular culture and created illusions. Ginsburg screamed and shouted loudly about drugs, hallucinogens, and sex. Liberation, a group of young people who follow young people wearing ragged clothes, living in shabby houses, being naked in public, frequent homosexuals and bisexuals, exchanging lovers and living a gregarious life, discovering a new self in the unbalanced ethical order, pursuing freedom, and restoring the distorted body and Soul, against the existing traditional moral order. Daniel Bell considers this rebellion and rage against the times to be "raucous, swearing, and vulgar", and sums up the cultural activism of the 1960s and 70s with "a focus on violence and cruelty; The obsession with sexual inversion; the desire to make noise; anti-cognitive, anti-intellectual emotions; a determined effort to erase the boundaries between art and life; the fusion of art and politics.”

Linda Lovelace, the heroine of the billion-dollar erotic film "Deep Throat", is the cover girl of the era of sexual liberation. "Deep Throat" has a great influence and wide range in the United States, and it was highly surrounded by sexual liberation people for a time, which triggered a debate with conservatives. The production company and cast and crew at that time were sued for this, and the actor was sentenced to 5 years in prison. The source who gave the Washington Post reporter a clue about President Nixon's "Watergate scandal" called himself "Deep Throat". Linda Lovelace could not bear the torture brought by her husband Chuck and the bad influence of the film in real life, and has been the spokesperson of the American anti-pornography movement since then.

At the beginning of the film "Lovelace", Lovelace, who was about 20 years old, resented that her little friend opened her bra to swim naked. She thought it would be a conservative girl next door, but later we know that she once had a child, Combining with Chuck, a strange man, it will soon be easy for him to fall in love with him and try all sexual skills that he has never tried before. It can be seen that Lovelace is also a member of many members of sexual liberation. And it was this strange man, Chuck, who made her go through a troubled and brilliant life.

The double repression from religion and patriarchy made Lovelace with a strong feminist color. Lovelace was beaten by Chuck and returned to her parents' house late at night, hoping to be sheltered by her mother. However, the fanatical Puritan mother made her daughter everything He obeyed her husband and believed that she had no right to make decisions for her daughter. And Chuck dominates everything about Lovelace by virtue of his powerful male hegemony, forcing Lovelace to make tertiary films, accepting sex transactions, and unprincipled beatings by unscrupulous means. Weak girls are simply unable to bear it, let alone resist all this. The status of women in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s has not changed substantially, and they are still prostrate at the feet of men.

The director seems to have no intention of focusing too much on women's rights and sexual liberation. The story of Linda Lovelace's missteps being deceived and forced to take pictures for prostitution completely empties the sense of the times. It may happen in any era and will be sympathized with. This play of sexual liberation and anti-feminism was instead filmed as a misstep caused by unhappy marriage and family conflicts. Amanda Seyfried, who has big eyes and a baby-like face, plays Lovelace. For a biopic, if the script, director, and actors are not a problem, it will definitely get an Oscar nomination. But the 90-minute film is obviously divided into two parts, one is the glorious history of Lovelace, the other is the history of abuse, the frequent use of flashbacks and interludes support a complete story, and Amanda's performance will obviously also There is a contrast between before and after, but the incoherent segmentation makes the transformation of the characters themselves seem too abrupt, one side is heaven and the other is hell, almost the same face is changing vicissitudes through makeup without any difference.

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