Equus. USA / UK, 1977.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Screenwriter: Peter Schaffer, who adapts his own play.
Cast: Richard Burton, Peter Firth
Topics of interest: repression, bestiality
Synopsis:
Martin, a psychiatrist, has to face the strange case of a teenager, Alan, who savagely attacked a group of horses leaving them blind. The boy is shown sullen and closed in on itself and the doctor must use their best gear to get step by step begin to tell his story. Before the assault, the boy had developed a somewhat unhealthy love for horses at the edge of bestiality.
Comment:
Equus can be considered a sample of psychiatric subgenus, movies on the relationship between doctor and patient, or rather like a cross between this style and the detective genre. As often happens in these cases, the psychiatrist also serves as police and a psychologist, doing investigations and interviewing (interrogating "?) To relatives and friends of the patient to find out the cause of the disorder that led him to attack various animals. Martin is earning over several sessions of psychotherapy of a psychoanalyst who own a psychiatrist Alan confidence, which initially shows rebellious and secretive. As often happens in the movies, the writer believes that when the patient can express their trauma and talk openly about it and will cured, a rather simple but common approach. So step by step, as if it were any other film Sidney Lumet's police , let us into the oppressive world of Alan and trying to understand why your accumulated anger and his decision on the horse download
s. From the start we sense that the boy's sexual problem: it has grown into a repressive religious family and where he has taught to view sex as something dirty and feel guilty about their sexuality and obsessed because he believes that God is watching and judging all times. With some parallels with the celibate priests and members of religious groups to divert their repressed sexuality of children to maintain regular contact with them, the impossibility of Alan normal sexual intercourse with a girl you do develop a kind of idolatry to the horse, to which not only projects diverting towards eroticism bestiality, but also the idea of \u200b\u200bdivinity, so that you can only feel liberated by attacking the horses, which is his way of rebelling against the God who is undergoing. The film takes an approach to the bestiality very inspired by psychoanalysis and Freud's theories about the object of desire and its projection in this case horses. Probably so academic approach, although suitable for a movie by its dramatic potential, it has much to do with reality. Not surprisingly, however, that a guy with a great love of horses and working around them begin to develop zoophilic fantasies, since these practices often carry out people who are most usually associated with animals and who care for them.
Top Scenes:
- When Alan decides to enter a porn film after much persuasion, is there with his father.
- The young man riding naked on one of the horses, will end up trying to sexually molest.
Anecdotes:
- The play was again represented in the London stage in 2007 giving a lot of talk by the naked protagonist, the young Daniel Radcliffe, star of the film adaptations of Harry Potter .
- The film earned three Oscar nominations: for Richard Burton as best actor, Peter Firth as best supporting actor and Peter Shaffer for best adapted screenplay. About
Sidney Lumet (Philadelphia, 1924) debuted in films with great success in 1957 with Twelve Angry Men, its most celebrated title, with the one with the first prize at the Berlin Film Festival and a nomination the Oscars. Since then he has directed an enormous number of films of varying quality and size of production, from pompous Hollywood productions to small British films, although in this bulging filmography can find all kinds of genres, it is certainly dominated the police. Eroticism appears only obliquely in some of their titles. Links: IMDB
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