The background music, camera editing and narration of the whole film are full of postmodern grotesqueness. Against the background of the rise of feminism, the question raised by "Female Addict" is really thought-provoking: what is the relationship between sex and love? ?
Sex and love are probably an eternal proposition in the philosophy of life. Sex is a very taboo topic in medieval Europe and traditional society in China. In Christian doctrine, gluttony and lust are also listed as the original sins of human beings, which seem to reflect the nature of sex better. Even in modern times when social sciences are developed, Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory still classifies sex as the lowest physiological and survival needs, just like food and clothing, which is strikingly similar to Christian teachings. This all reflects that in the Western point of view, it seems that sex does not need to be treated differently or even should be erased, it is a human instinct. This concept is probably the basis of the ideological logic of "Female Addict".
However, sex is different from eating and dressing. On the basis of sex, there are a series of superstructures such as human marriage, family, state and private ownership. In the end, it is only oneself who is gluttonous, while lust involves various social relationships. This is the kind of story that "Female Addict" shows people. The girl B, who played with the protagonist Joe from childhood to adulthood, said, "Love is the best raw material for making love", breaking the rules set by herself, and it is the most straightforward answer to the question of sex and love in the movie; Mr. H is greedy for Joe's flesh. When she betrayed her family, Ms. H's hysteria when facing her husband and lover made the crisis of the reconstruction of sex and love vividly reflected; When breaking the precepts and uniting a lover with a sexual partner, suddenly the pleasures of the flesh are dull...
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