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Jake 2022-03-23 09:02:06

A little thought:
1. In a closed room, the topic was introduced at random through the objects in the room, but it was actually very logical.
2. With the development of each chapter of the story, the director explained and supplemented the main line of the story with the comments and narration of the second parallel scene. Take the topic further.
3. The most psychologically special social group, sexual hermits, are not at all accepted by society in terms of quantity and ethics. The hypocrisy of human nature that the heroine attacks in the film is so obvious on many issues. And the heroine is the one who never hides herself or generates self-loathing because of her unique desire. Such a person is almost a perfect existence, and it is also the author's idealized expression of human nature. The so-called self-redemption seems very helpless in this context. And the revealing of the true face of the hypocritical good person at the end is what really drove this journey of self-redemption to a dead end, and in my opinion, this result is indeed a one-off.
4. In the first part, the heroine has been looking for the bright side of love and humanity in the process of growing up, while the second part is the process in which the heroine is constantly slapped by the so-called ethics and humanity. In the end, the beating and humiliation of Jerome and P made the heroine even more disheartened. Two people she once loved and gave her heart to, one made herself completely perverted because of hatred, and the other went to others in the name of superficial rebellion. Instead, she defined herself as a cold-blooded heroine from the very beginning. The debtor, p, Jerome and the hypocrite show sympathy and understanding. Fortunately, until the end, the heroine did not give up her resistance to fight for her rights and dignity.

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Nymphomaniac: Vol. II quotes

  • Joe: Dear everyone, don't think it's been easy, but I understand now that we're not and never will be alike.

    [to Tania]

    Joe: I'm not like you, who fucks to be validated and might just as well give up putting cocks inside of you. You already got your bloody kick a long time ago when it turned out that someone was even bothered to fuck you.

    [to Brunhelda]

    Joe: And I'm not like you. Eat yourself to death if you want. I have no pity for you. All you want is to be filled up and whether it's by a man or by tons of disgusting slop makes no difference because it's all just a pathetic attempt at filling out your own resounding emptiness and hiding your ridiculous egocentric self-loathing.

    [to the Therapist]

    Joe: And I'm definitely not like you. That empathy you claim is a lie because all you are is society's morality police whose duty is to erase my obscenity from the surface of the Earth so that the bourgeoisie won't feel sick.

    [to the entire group]

    Joe: I'm not like you. I am a nymphomaniac and I love myself for being one, but above all, I love my cunt and my filthy, dirty lust.

  • Joe: By the way, I can assure you that women who claim that negroes don't turn them on, are lying.

    Seligman: So do they satisfy you, those negroes?

    Joe: No, but they showed me there was a world far from mine I had to explore. And there perhaps on the other side get my life back.