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I didn't expect such a movie to become a classic. Of course, the director is actually trying to explore sex as a philosophy.
To this end, the layout is cleverly done. Seligman, a scholar with few desires, accidentally picks up a heroine, Joe. Joe and Seligman tell about his fallen life, and Seligman uses his profound wisdom to interpret her life.
On the one hand, the heroine Qiao's "sexual experiment" from a child to 50 years old is used to carry out a naked and all-round research on "sex".
As a child, Joe explored sexual pleasures with his friend B. Play water skiing on the bathroom floor from the start. Until Joe has sex with Jerome for the first time.
As a teenager, Joe and B started a "sex contest" on the train to see who could have sex with more men on the train.
After that, Joe and B started a "women addicts club" together, on the premise that there is only sex, not love. Although they also established rules to keep each other in check (like not having sex with the same guy twice), many girls ended up falling in love with a guy for sex, and the club fell apart.
As a youth, Joe became even more promiscuous, especially after reuniting with Jerome and feeling like he was in love with him who suddenly eloped with another colleague.
Reuniting with Jerome again, Joe finally married him and had a child. But because of previous promiscuity, Joe can't stand his sex addiction, and Jerome can't, despite his efforts to satisfy her. So Jo, with Jerome's tacit approval, had sex with strangers recklessly, until one day the black man she was dating brought another black brother. She began to try new challenges, found an SM expert, and accepted the "professional abuse" of the other party.
Because of her addiction to SM, she even nearly made her child disappear. So Jerome divorced her, and the child was given to someone else. So she started acting as a prostitute again, participating in all kinds of absurd sexual activities.
Until the end, because of long-term promiscuity, Joe's body was irreparably damaged, and he fell on the road and was picked up by Seligman.
On the other hand, Seligman evaluated Joe's life experiences one by one with a rational attitude. And these evaluations are also quite interesting, using almost all subject knowledge.
From the very beginning, Seligman defended Joe's sexual exploration and sexual play from the original sin of religion when he was two years old. Then came Isaac Wharton's "The Great Angler", which interprets Joe's sexual awakening process from "fishing":
From "fly hook" (aka chrysalis), to "pupae as an early form of insects", and then to "as a young chrysalis", Joe "inevitably wanted to get rid of virginity". In this way, in a far-fetched way, Joe's awakening is regarded as a "natural" beginning of innocence.
From Joe and B on the train taking the man seduce contest to contrast fishing with "either no fish or all the fish...it's observable, but unpredictable", both as a thing that goes against worldly morality , explaining the game of being a young man, and explaining that Joe started to lose B, not because of a problem of charm or skill. And Seligman also took this opportunity to show off his erudition (even fishing is a set, rational thinking).
Finally, in fishing, for those fish that don't take the bait (don't need food, such as salmon or trout, eat their own fat in the sea, basically don't need to eat, it's just how they swim upstream to spawning grounds) ), taken to the extreme lure "Finnish weapons", is the so-called "Swallow Grey Butterfly". And Joe is the man who successfully seduced the upper class by using oral sex under the situation of obvious backwardness. achieved the final victory.
Of course, Joe's "moral" guilt over the possible "moral" of this victory is obvious, because she may have left the other party without children. However, Seligman immediately defended: I have read that if you don’t ejaculate for too long, the sperm will die, and you may not be able to have children. Thanks to you, Mr. S and his wife
Now I have a healthy baby.
Seligman then tells Joe to use a book about Sikorsky and helicopters to understand Joe's power to discover "sex" (I discovered my power as a woman, regardless of other people's feelings). Start abusing, which is totally unacceptable), and then use it recklessly. He also thinks it's "with wings, why don't you fly..." He even compares sex with love, and makes a grand argument: For me, love is just desire and jealousy, everything else is bullshit, and every hundred times it is love Only one crime was committed in the name of sex. (In my understanding, he means that "sex" is more real and sincere than "love".)
Although the above content is interesting, it is always "literary", so Seligman tries to liberate "sex" from philosophy and religion. For example, for beginners, take the "Zeno's Paradox" (Achilles and the tortoise race, Achilles is very confident, so he let the tortoise run 100 meters first, then the problem is, if Achilles wants to surpass the tortoise, he must first Run to the point where the tortoise starts at 100 meters. But when Achilles reaches that point, the tortoise has run forward; when he runs to the next point, the tortoise runs forward again; Kiris will never catch up with the tortoise, let alone surpass it. Likewise, you keep chasing and not getting it, that's the paradox) to explain the heroine's insatiable sexuality. In this way, there is no end, and it is reasonable to destroy the "sex" of Qiao's life.
She even saw Valeria Massarina (the famous sex addict in history, when Jo recounted how she felt a spontaneous orgasm while traveling when she was twelve years old. Also Black Widow) and Nimrod (a famous prostitute in Babylonian times) riding a bull. Seligman even combined this with religion. In 1054 AD, the religions were divided into Orthodox and Catholicism. The Catholic Church likes to paint the crucifixion of Jesus, which is a painful religion; and the Eastern Orthodox Church likes to paint the Virgin Mary, which is a joyful religion. Eastern churches express joyful faith while Western churches are steeped in suffering and death. Imagine you are traveling east from Rome and you will feel yourself moving from guilt and pain to happiness and light. It also pointed out that Joe took the road of SM in order to satisfy his sexual desire, combined with "Catholic advocacy of the pursuit of suffering is not only violent, but also sadistic". Let Joe's sexual history legend, with the breath of creative religion. Apparently, Joe's cynical and absurd experiences (not only with Freud's original theory of sexual origins, but basically a "textbook" account of all kinds of perversions and indulgences) , just because Seligman's various "rational interpretations" appear not only "innocent" but "reasonable", and even "promotes sex and suppresses love", emphasizing the "religion of sex", and even intends to usurp religious "Justice" tries to untie "the rope of sex" with "the origin of religion".
In the end, Joe's health deteriorated due to promiscuity and even sexual abuse. And her chaotic life and bad reputation made it difficult for her to even find a job. And at this time she was still pregnant (of course she didn't know who the father of the child was), so she could only have an abortion and could only receive so-called psychotherapy. But she pretended or forced herself to overcome her sex addiction, but finally broke out to the doctor: Your so-called emotional resonance is a complete lie, you are just the moral police of this society, and your job is to make my lewdness thorough. Clear it out so the bourgeoisie doesn't feel sick. I'm not like you, I'm a sex addict, I love myself as a sex addict, but most importantly, I love my vagina and my dirty sex drive. Because she reached the extreme, she joined the underworld and became a usurer. Because of her experience, she is like a little devil of sexual religion, able to peep out people's inner desires. So she's very successful in that line, because she doesn't need to rely on force, but by sexual probing, to find out the most private things about a person (I can't find your weakness, but experience tells me that no one is perfect, fortunately you There is a part of the body that can detect lie, I will tell you a few stories, you can listen. I will tell him all kinds of fictional and some perverted stories...) Her success even made her start to take apprentices, but she actually I fell in love with the female apprentice, and because of the female apprentice's betrayal, I fell into the trap of life again. Obviously, the movie goes over and over and over again and uses all kinds of methods to tell us that love is not as real as sex. Even if sex addiction will destroy life, it is human nature, the last privacy, and an incurable chronic disease. So, at the end, Seligman climbed into Joe's bed.
In short, the film is trying to find the basis for the existence of sex addiction from all levels and angles, even at the expense of confronting reality, traditional morality and romantic love. It is clear that the author is erudite and rigorous, and to him this is just a "research object", although he uses himself as Seligman to look objectively at sex addiction, as well as his religious science. (Like Newton, like Cavendish) The final surrender of asceticism to sex addiction reveals its own understanding. Therefore, the value of the movie is the complete solution of sexual liberation. Although it contains a lot of subjectivity, it can help us to look at the problem from the perspective of "sex addiction", instead of looking at it according to traditional morality and social interests. 18.4.12
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