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Unconscious repression and conscious lies
Giovani 2022-04-20 09:01:50
In order to learn from the director's "space-time reshaping" method, the first seven minutes of the film, without any narration explanation and without any plot lay out, completely and truly show the current situation of a family and the relationship between family members and family members. The betrayal, alienation, and communication barriers. After watching the whole film, it was handled calmly, even the ending. The male and female protagonists were sitting on the stairs, and it started to rain. At the beginning of the film, the heroine An said that she didn’t care about sex. Later This is not the case for Glenn's desire, and Glenn has said before that Ann cares about others seeing her, so it can be imagined that Ann subconsciously suppressed her sexual desire and talked about sex. Falling in love leaves a huge shadow, wrongly thinking that sex is an important way to understand women, and he did not express this feeling in the correct way before, this idea subconsciously led to his impotence, and for nine years, he began to use Videotaped interviews record women's conversations about sex, trying to understand women and show Elizabeth a changed version of herself. Both characters are unconsciously repressed sexually. In the end, they are attracted to each other, and this repression is right. Release. And the other two characters, Ann's sister, a bohemian ''bad woman''. Ann's husband, an arrogant lawyer, has indulgent sexual desires, and the two often cheat, regardless of family ethics. Because in reality this is not allowed, so lies are born. The lies of the two made Ann think that she was living a peaceful and ordinary married life until the lie was finally revealed. And John and Elizabeth's lies led Glenn to believe that his sexuality was the reason for the breakdown. When all the lies are revealed, the characters begin to face sex correctly
Extended Reading
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Verda 2022-03-21 09:02:12
Trivial to the point that your whole world is in pieces.
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Iliana 2022-03-26 09:01:07
CC.Sex is the pretense, lies and videotape is the focus of Soderbergh (it is said that he only spent eight days to write the script, but in the interview he said that it takes a year to collect material), the narration comes before the image, the narrative quartet is a bit like a wave In Locke's hourglass painting (interior decoration in the film), one paint is already in mid-air before it has landed on the canvas. The psychological complexity of the characters is layered, and although it is expressed as a quick dialogue, it evaporates the essence of desire and its repression. This is a description of a class that is indifferent to life, but who worries about its way of life all day long. This class is also indifferent to itself and its desires, focusing only on layer upon layer of videotape. The sexual repositories hidden there are sites of seduction and language. And each person's interaction with his own life, from an existential point of view, is meaningless. Likewise, the director's interaction with his film is, from a theatrical point of view, meaningless. The image comes out of the drama and enters the psychodrama of the image, which makes the image lose its charm and is tiresome. The film itself falls into the same cold video.
Sex, Lies, and Videotape quotes
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John Mullany: You're lying to Ann, too.
Cynthia: Yeah, right, but I didn't take a vow in front of God and everyone to be faithful to Ann.
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Ann: I think that um... I think that sex is overrated. I think that people place far too much importance on it, and I think that stuff about women wantin' it just as bad as men is crap. I mean I think that women want it, I just don't think that they want it for the same reason that men think they do.