The whole movie only needs two actors and a small theater. The plot is simple. A down-and-out actress Wanda asks the screenwriter Thomas to audition with him. The core of the plot is the script itself, a story about SM sadomasochism.
The hero and heroine changed clothes several times and the stage changed several times, so that the dominant position of the characters was also secretly changed. From the despairing plea of the heroine Wanda when she first appeared, to the end, the male screenwriter Thomas willingly obeyed Wanda's orders, hung up his fiancee's phone, and was tied to the stage props symbolizing the phallus by Wanda, beaten and abused. In the step-by-step development of the plot, Wanda pulled Thomas, who was originally high above the altar. Thomas firmly believed that the script was about true love. Later, under the persecution of Wanda step by step, he began to make concessions and began to admit. The objectification and contempt for women in the heart are exposed. The funniest part of the movie is who the hell is Wanda? When the heroine appeared, there were many doubts, why the name was the same as the protagonist in the script, why did she have a complete script, why she clearly said that she just watched the script for three minutes on the subway, but she knew the lines by heart, and she opened her mouth to speak. Can tell the essence of the story. Her identity is a down-and-out actress, the daughter of a police officer, a private detective, and a prostitute standing on the street, but she was exposed and denied by the male protagonist one by one. She knows how to adjust the stage lighting, knows how to direct a play for Thomas, can use some very classical words, is familiar with the Greek "Bacchus and His Priestess", and knows Thomas' fiancee like the back of her hand. Who is she?
Interestingly, Wanda suggested adding a play for Thomas. The play was about Venus in fur, who failed to seduce the male protagonist, and felt resentment in his heart, "The Lord punished him and handed him into the hands of a woman", So he turned into the heroine Wanda and let the male lead surrender. This scene is just the reflection of the whole story: at first, the down-and-out actress begged Thomas to let her audition and give her a chance to audition, and later turned into Wanda in the play, making Thomas completely surrender to the depravity. Thomas ends up being tied to a prop, and Wanda beats him, making him shout "Thank you, Goddess!" In the final scene of the film, Wanda dances the dance of the Dionysian priestess, making Thomas like the legendary blasphemous priestess Like the king, he tore Thomas to shreds mentally. Wanda is the goddess of Venus!
The story is very interesting, the script is an erotic story, but the eroticism is handled very obscurely in the performance, and there is basically no direct physical contact between the male and female protagonists. With the progress of the plot, the identities of master and slave, the balance of domination of the male and female protagonists in the hearts of the audience swayed left and right, and gradually tilted and subverted. The goddess's mischief, the mockery of the hypocrite, is reminiscent of the Chinese story of Liaozhai.
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