beauty by day, Reivew on Belle de Jour

Young, beautiful, elegant and noble petty-bourgeois women are willing to enter a brothel during the day, become a stunner to be manipulated by all kinds of men, and pass the dull and even empty young women's time under the pleasure of being abused and insulted. The story can have many reactions, for example, speculation about the depraved nature of women from good families can lead to the most vicious prophecies about human nature. Of course, we can also point the finger at the bourgeoisie outside of gold and jade, and see what hides behind their elegant appearance. The smell of corruption, after some comparison, those girls who sold their bodies for only a few money seem sincere and understandable.

But there's another aspect of this story that goes unnoticed. Daytime beauties are only for strong, sadistic men, or, conversely, they are for her. Her husband, on the other hand, is docile, tolerant, and more obedient than demanding. At each climax of violence, that is, when meaning fully emerges, Day Beauty feels her love for her husband, a devotion and a closeness, which means that, for her, sex is not an end. At the same time as she becomes a tool for others, others also become tools for her, so that, in such a relationship of reciprocity, she wins her own initiative and dignity. In the dream, she fantasized that her husband was the instigator of the violence and an indifferent bystander, not the perpetrator himself, but the whole meaning of what came to her when she was insulted and defiled. Manifestation requires a medium, a threat, an insignificant, anyone-can-be-possessor of her body. This is the highest denial of pure physical desire and the highest affirmation of love.

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