Watched a movie some time ago
Called "Sex, Lies, and Videotape"
I risk being banned
I wrote such a serious article about sexual discoloration
And gave him a new name called "Love, Imagination and Self-Deception"
This movie has nothing to do with "sex", it has nothing to do with lies
The four protagonists each represent a category of people:
John takes pleasure in seducing women and is proud of it;
Ann (John’s wife) keeps his duty
Conceal one's desires reservedly;
Graham's (John's friend) desire
Stifled by inferiority and incompetence in thought;
Cynthia (Ann's sister; John's sister-in-law lover)
Bold and debauchery, without concealing one's own views and desires
Let’s talk about the nasty male protagonist with tangled eyebrows like Crayon Shin-chan
This is the combination of id plus superego that Freud said
It is the seamless connection between the "happiness principle" and the "reality principle"
"Principle of happiness" is the instinct of people to chase happiness
The "principle of reality" is that people strive to meet the requirements of society
This male protagonist is a typical moral hypocrite
He flaunted his marriage and often hooked up with little girls
I pretend to be a conscientious husband
Ann is a good wife and mother in the traditional sense
She is beautiful, chaste, and decent
Good housekeeping, safekeeping, and ladylike demeanor
She has almost all the society’s aesthetic standards for women
But in fact she is also a contradictory combination
Traditional moral concepts severely restricted her freedom
Ignore my inner driving force
She vented it in another way, that is cleanliness
She must clean up the room spotlessly
To release the energy that was suppressed in her heart
Sister Cindia once accused her of speaking in the same tone as her mother
Family, school, and society have shaped women like her
It seems that all the good things are seamless, but I lost myself
Syndia is a rebel of the traditional value system
She is lively, cheerful and bohemian
Broke the set of what women have to abide by the society formed
Code of conduct, ethics and aesthetic standards
She exists as the opposite of the image of sister Ann
She hates women in the traditional sense
Reflect the "intrinsic self" to the greatest extent
So as to become a person who is intolerable by social ethics
She lives in her own spiritual world without any distractions
Don't care about the eyes of others
People always live in a network of social group relationships
It’s impossible to practice its happiness principle forever.
In the end, she made a compromise with the principle of reality
Bravely ended the relationship with brother-in-law
Graham, a marginal character
He is a cleanliness person just like Ann
It’s just that he’s mentally clean
Of course it is more or less reflected in daily life
He doesn’t have to worry about food and clothing, he doesn’t need to be like John
Running to maintain a false and decent image
He appeared in an image of "sexual impotence"
Because of my low self-esteem and cowardice
He lost the "happiness principle" by "lie"
Lies are the concept of repression referred to by Marcuse
That is, to face the contradiction between the "intrinsic self" and the "superego"
People out of the instinct to "reject pain"
Reconcile by lying
In this sense
Lying seems to be a very effective way to solve the problem
But a lie requires n more lies to round the lie
John maintains the balance and stability of his life on the surface
But once the lie is exposed, the marriage is broken
Lovers abandon, friends lose peace, career hindered
Ann’s lies are self-deception, once the lie is shattered
The energy of the "self" is ready to come out
Thereby removing the harm to oneself;
Syndia may not love John by nature
But out of revenge against the rules of society
In order to release her "happiness" to the utmost extent
Her lie hurts herself and others and hurts society
When the veil of lies is lifted
Everything becomes clear
She no longer has to bear moral guilt
Life will become fresh and healthy
As for Graham, he spurned lies
So he launched a ten-year "stop lie" operation
Hope to purify yourself by this
But his motivation for "quitting lies" is itself a lie
Because of the holy girl in his life
Turned out to be an ordinary slutty girl
When all the truth is revealed
His lie was also destroyed
The videotape reflects the difficulties of communication between people
It is a prop to expose lies
Witnessed the development, ups and downs and changes of the entire event
And became a key part of the plot of the whole movie
The camera captures details that people have overlooked
Plus the editing and reorganization of the operator
The reflected world is colorful and colorful
And unintentionally acted as a mediator
Help people who are lost in life get out
Set up a trap of lies one after another
Thus got a new life
Ann learned that Graham was also a sexually impotent
And get satisfaction by listening to the subject’s sexual experience
She was shocked when she suddenly turned the camera around
When I aimed at Graham who used to take other people’s videos,
Such a move
It is undoubtedly an inquiry and questioning of Graham's inner world
Why do you want to shoot? What do you think of the issue of sex? ...
This is an attempt to explore Graham's spiritual path
At the same time, is it not in modern society
What is the medium between the two in the era of highly developed media?
It's also the viewer's own medium between the two
How does an individual adapt to the requirements of social civilization
Under the legal cloak of love and marriage, a reconciliation between the two was achieved
People are constantly seeking breakthroughs and reconstructions in the siege of love and marriage
People are constantly looking for a fulcrum of balance between the two
So I think this film should be called "Love, Imagination and Self-Deception"
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