The film tells the story of a woman who is addicted to sex in an autobiographical format. The artistic temperament of the heroine Joe (Stacy Martin) and the director's use of cool tones and close-up lenses give the film a unique aesthetic. The story unfolds chapter by chapter, interspersed with Seligma's theoretical commentary on Joe's experience. Each chapter symbolizes the transformation of the female protagonist Joe's psychological process. From the yearning and ignorance of sex as a girl, to a sex contest with his friend B, Joe's desire for sex climaxes. Although Joe desires sex and wants to have sex with different men, she refuses love and refuses to have sex with the same man twice. Until she met Jerome again, she gradually discovered that she fell in love with Jerome through work contact. When she finally expressed her love bravely, she found that Jerome and the company secretary had run away. When she meets Jerome again, Joe is no longer looking for more men, but maintains relationships with three men who make her feel different. I think Joe's psychological development process is like a process from ego, id, to superego. At first she pursued pure sex, a kind of physical pleasure, and gradually she discovered love, and she tried to incorporate elements of love into sex.
Female addicts are divided into upper and lower parts, which add up to more than four hours. After Joe and Jerome had sex at the end of the first movie, she found herself suddenly unable to feel sexual. I believe that in the second part, Joe gradually discovered that the relationship between the sexes is not just sex.
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