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Equus: passion in the stable

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

director:

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.

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American gigolo: luxury prostitution

American gigolo. USA, 1980.

Director and Screenwriter: Paul Schrader Cast

: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton

Topics of interest: prostitution

Synopsis: Julian

is a stylish and sophisticated gigolo offers its services to wealthy women, his life becomes complicated when you are involved in a murder and can not prove his innocence: his alibi is one of her clients and she is not interested in declaring who was with him.

Comment:

face image Sister loss and vulnerable people usually have engaged in prostitution, American gigolo is an exception for two reasons: emphasis on paid sex class talking about a man who prostitutes rather than women. As with abortion, prostitution is also a hugely controversial subject matter of disputes between supporters of the ban and those of their regularization. Feminist and conservative groups motivated by religious reasons agree that prostitution can not be considered a decent job but it is a form of sexual slavery of women and a violation paid; needed to sustain this argument ignore the fact that there is a number not as despicable as it is said of men who engage in prostitution (even more if we include in it to transvestites and transsexuals), that, though male prostitution is often directed gay men are also women clients of prostitution, and finally that, although the majority of prostitutes are women actually semiesclavizadas by gangs or drug addiction engaged in this activity under conditions close to those of the White Slave Traffic the past, there also, even as a minority, a luxury prostitution conducted voluntarily by women and men that could be spent on another job but are tempted by easy money and opportunities to move in this way in a world of glitz and influential people, enjoying a level of life that would be banned in a conventional job.

Paul Schrader, director and screenwriter, choose to focus on the latter because he was not interested in talking about social issues surrounding prostitution, but, as always in his films, the drama of a particular drifting character trying to escape a vicious cycle of materialism and lack of moral values. Raised in a strict Puritan and Calvinist environment, Schrader shows American gigolo , like all his other films, a morbid and unhealthy fascination with sin. Julian, the gigolo, living a hedonistic life that revolves around the cult of the body, wear the right clothes and visit the restaurants and trendiest clubs, sees nothing demeaning in his profession and is proud of its status as sex objects of women mature: prefer older women. What sense does and lead to teenage orgasm? A teenager who gets horny watching a movie and go running home to masturbate. Anyone can do it.

While other titles in the evolution Schrader the character is inside, this is a Hollywood commercial production, so that the conflict is externalized through a criminal plot involving Julian going and makes you feel uncomfortable in his frivolous life. The gigolo, which could be a close relative of Marcello Mastroianni's character in La dolce vita will have to go through a via crucis that allows you to redeem and save.

Top Scenes: Julian

• exercise in your room while you learn Swedish to receive a their clients. Here is dressed in a designer suit, the gigolos life of luxury has been well defined.

Anecdotes:

• is a Jerry Bruckheimer production , one of the most successful executives have given to American industry over the last thirty years. including Flashdance, Top Gun or Pirates.

• Before Richard Gere, other names were considered for the lead role as Christopher Reeve and John Travolta . Travolta backtracked at the last moment because it required have control over the final cut, not an actor should be easy since Roman Polanski also had problems with it in another project.

• The box office success was considerable, $ 23 million of revenue in the United States, against a production cost of less than 5.

• The main theme of the soundtrack, Call me, was a major bestseller, the largest in new wave group Blondie U.S.. He was also nominated for Golden Globe for best song, was the only recognition made by the film, apart from another nomination for best soundtrack for Giorgio Moroder , one of the kings of techno-pop and a regular contributor as both Schrader Bruckheimer.
  

About the director:

Paul Schrader was born in a small town in the state of Michigan in 1946. Bring up or religious community in a strict Calvinist, he was not allowed to attend the theater until he left home to study at university, where he abandoned his previous vocation as a priest and became a film lover and activist of the left side which caused him conflict with their beliefs reflected in almost all his films. He likes to wallow in a manner as bitter as unhealthily morbid in sin, degradation and subsequent redemption in his films, both as a screenwriter (Taxi Driver being his most famous screenplay), and when it is also a director ( Hardcore, Light Sleeper, Affliction ) . The sex is dealt with in his films as something corrupt, a part of the degenerative process that his characters suffer.

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Max my love: love primate

Max mon amour. France / USA / Japan, 1986

Director: Nagisa Oshima

Writers: Nagisa Oshima and Jean-Claude

Carrière Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins

Subjects of interest: bestiality, free love

Synopsis:

Peter, a British diplomat stationed in France, has hired detectives to follow his wife, Margaret, and find out the identity of her new lover. The researchers report that Margaret spends every afternoon in an apartment they have never seen anyone else out, Peter is presented here to find out who is the love that never leaves the house. To his surprise, is to get there with a chimpanzee named Max.

Comment:

often said that any sexual practice is respected between freely consenting adults. This saying explicitly condemns pedophilia but leaves aside the issue of sex with animals, between humans accept that sexual freedom is one of the rights of the person, but can say that an animal is sexual freedom? Does sexuality goes beyond animal instinct? Is it abuse having sex with an animal? Could it be more acceptable sex with some species than with others? The concept that animals have rights is very recent, very recently that our country has been penalized animal abuse per se, without considering it as damage to property of another person. Today (if amongst our readers is someone who knows more about the subject, let us know) zoophilic porn film moves in a legal vacuum: it is not regulated but not banned, in contrast to practices such as dog or cock fights, who are being treated as abuse.

As the movies not porn, this taboo zoophilia has been raised in some movies, like the sordid Poodle of Bigas Luna, or humorously in an episode of Everything you ever wanted to know about sex but never dared to ask for Woody Allen, but no doubt my love Max shines in this particular subgenre to carry out treatment of the subject devoid of curiosity and sensationalism, which gives it a dial tone surreal. Walking through the zoo, Margaret meets Max, a chimpanzee, and a love at first sight arises between them, or at least Margaret is convinced that it is. Chimpanzees are our closest relatives, are very intelligent, capable of understanding the language, and basic responses display different moods to different people, depending on their treatment of them. According to scientists, are as intelligent as a young child, "Margaret raves or Max really loves her? Is this love is wrong in itself or only problematic due to the backlash against society?

These questions makes Peter, the husband of Margaret comprehensive, that represents the point of view of logic and the viewer, but throughout the film is assumed to be normal relations between women and chimpanzee. Peter and Margaret are an open couple who want to respect the other's freedom to have affairs and mistresses, not hidden, unless the particular case of Max, his extramarital affairs. To avoid losing his wife, Peter agrees that the chimpanzee is installed in his house for her and the couple's son, quickly becomes a member of the family. Peter is not as tolerant at first with this relationship and shows jealous to see the special bond that unites Max with Margaret: This time it's not an adventure but of something deeper. The film, greatly shocking the ease with which we are shown this situation, it describes the process by which Peter, and with it the viewer, agrees that your marriage becomes a menage a trois regardless of social prejudices and the boundaries between species. Max my love becomes a whole argument against the conventional and for the freedom and diversity. Top Scenes

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• Max, the chimpanzee, with its noise reveals its presence to the guests of Peter and Margaret, who is curious to meet him. Brought to the table where humans are eating, Max begins to show Margaret affectionate with a very shocking for the rest of those present.

• Intrigued by what kind of sex have Max and his wife, Peter hires a prostitute to maintain relations with the chimpanzee. However, Max rejects: just want to Margaret.

Anecdotes:

• The co-writer Jean-Claude Carrière , was a regular contributor Luis Buñuel in most of his films. Also the producer, Serge Silberman , Buñuel used to work with, so no surprise surreal tone marking many film sequences.

• The English Victoria Abril plays the maid of marriage, which the ape you are allergic.

• Competition in Cannes 1986. About

director:

Nagisa Oshima (Kyoto , 1932 -) is one of the biggest names of the new Japanese cinema that developed during the 60's and that against humanity of Japan's classics, like Kurosawa, Ozu and Mizoguchi, analyzed the contradictions of Japan after the Second World War. Oshima has alternated projects in their country, not only in cinema but also on television with international productions, like the one in question. His best known film in the West is The Realm of the Senses (1976), which also revolves around sex. Remains removed from the film since the release of Taboo (1999).

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