Saw it a few months ago. A little note.
Quote: Roman Polanski [on Venus in Fur (2013)]
This is my greatest satisfaction - to do what I can, what I'm allowed to do. The lower the budget, the more freedom I had. Here I had total and absolute freedom. On every point. If something is screwed up, you can only blame me. I have a sentiment and nostalgia for the theatre. I like the smell of the theatre. I like everything about it... so to film a subject of which the action entirely plays in a run-down theatre to me was a joy.
SM is taken from the sadism represented by the French Marquis de Sade in the 18th century, and the masochism represented by the Austrian novelist Marsock.
Another appellation is BDSM, B is Bondage bundle, D is Discipline whip.
—— "Mr. Pan Guangdan, an older generation of Chinese sociologist, translated Sadomasochism as sadomasochism. Its basic definition is a sexual orientation that associates pleasure and pain.
Foucault himself is a lover of sadomasochism, and his theory of 'desexualization of pleasure' is summed up from sadomasochistic practice. Sadomasochism separates sexual pleasure from the genitals. In sadomasochistic activities, sometimes sexual pleasure can be obtained completely without the reproductive organs. Foucault said: Another idea of it is to turn all parts of the body into sexual instruments.
Sadomasochism is not only a special orientation of a few people. Through sadomasochism, people also develop their physical and mental domains and create new forms of pleasure, instead of keeping the pursuit of sexual pleasure at such a narrow level as the genitals.
Sadomasochism reminds us how powerful the irrational forces are in human nature. Many phenomena cannot be explained by reason, such as artistic imagination and human perception of beauty. Another of Foucault's famous words is that sadomasochism has caused one of the greatest transformations of the Western imagination, a transformation into the irrational state of delirium.
Sometimes people are too rational and too serious, which easily makes life lose its beauty and cannot fully enjoy and experience the happiness in life. I hope everyone can open their hearts to understand the phenomenon of sadomasochism. "
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