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Blue velvet. USA, 1986.

Director and Screenwriter: David Lynch

Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern

Subjects of interest: fetishism, sadomasochism

Synopsis:
A human ear appears on the quiet garden district where Jeffrey lives. The boy is investigating the case on his own with the help of Sandy, the daughter of one of the policemen in town. Sandy puts Jeffrey on the trail of Dorothy, the lead singer of a night-club that will introduce the young into the dark night of your local underworld, hitherto completely unknown to him.

Comment:

The film begins with an overview of a typical American residential area. Sunshine and the gentle ballad sounds Blue velvet which gives the film its title. Suddenly one of the neighbors have a heart attack, the music loses strength and is replaced by a disturbing noise and the camera is inserted into the grass of one of the gardens of the neighborhood, discovering in him a severed human ear. This already tells us that we will attend a descent into hell hidden under a nice appearance, given the dreamlike tone of the film, this can be seen as a metaphor for a journey into the subconscious, to combat the most threatening oneself, which is almost always the center of the film by David Lynch. Blue Velvet be seen as a modern fairy tale in which Jeffrey, the protagonist, you have to shape their identity and move into adulthood with a traumatic initiation process which must deal with a witch, Dorothy, and an ogre (Frank, Dorothy's lover) to win the princess, Sandy.

In this journey of initiation to the dark bowels of the city, or of self, sexuality plays a very important but does not normally stand out erotomaniac Lynch as all his films have a strong sexual atmosphere. In Blue Velvet dared to put first on the table for characters with a distinctly sexual fetish, years before the bizarre cult was fashionable; this film was actually quite a countercurrent time as the 80 dominated by the asexuality and innocence somewhat forced productions Steven Spielberg and his imitators, always looking for label film for all audiences. Lynch distanced himself with this work clearly aimed at an adult audience in which they openly show the cruel ritual of domination and submission, on the edge of rape, who play Frank and Dorothy. Frank appears as an adult child as sadistic and perverse as dependent, unable to control his sexual drive and to give moral or emotional dimension, Dorothy, both fairy and witch reaffirms its role of victim to the point of investing in someone like Jeffrey, who is reluctant to be the executioner and therefore will to assume another role and be humiliated, and that Dorothy does not support sex without power games. Their strange relationship with this sadomasochistic initiation Jeffrey will serve to confront his fear of women and the demons of his own sexuality, represented by Frank, destroy and thereby turn the witch in a fairy good. In later films of David Lynch, the protagonist is no longer able to carry out successful completion of this process and is involved in a self-destructive nightmare, as in Lost Highway .



Top Scenes:

Dorothy finds
  • Jeffrey hidden in his closet. Threatening with a knife, make you strip in front of her.

  • humiliating Frank is excited whispers Dorothy while the child wants to fuck and inhale amyl nitrate to increase your excitement.

  • SPOILER: At the end of the story, Frank can no longer continue doing damage to Dorothy, played happily with his son while Jeffrey and Sandy, happy, hear the birds sing. The light has overcome the darkness.

Anecdotes:

  • was the first collaboration between Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti , who has composed soundtracks for all subsequent films and also director of the hit television series Twin Peaks . also Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern have worked with Lynch, who obviously likes to surround himself known in the past.

  • Apart from these relations, David Lynch found this film to his girlfriend for several years, Isabella Rossellini .
  • The rating agency of the films in the United States forced to cut the odd scene for the film was not forbidden to minors, one of these criteria was that Frank hit censorship Dorothy out of field and not on display.
  • The film earned an Oscar nomination for lonely David Lynch for Best Director of the Year, among many other awards from critics' associations and nominations for Golden Globe and Independent Spirit.
About the director:

David Lynch born in Montana in 1946, from an early age he began to paint and then became interested in film when he wants to move to his paintings. His first film, Eraserhead , hard to see and carried out with a limited budget over the years become a film cult and get some producers are set to their director. Blue Velvet makes it one of the authors most unique and one of the main references of contemporary avant-garde cinema. His surreal and dreamlike look on the black film is repeated on the hit television soap opera Twin Peaks and later in other cult films as Lost Highway or Mulholland Drive . Eroticism, Fetish and almost always disturbing, is one of the main elements of his films and is always leaving the stories, but rarely go to extreme close.

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Comizi d'amore. Italy, 1965.

Director and Screenwriter: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Synopsis:

The director Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy covers the microphone in hand sixty people asking questions about sex.

Comment:

curious and bold in this documentary, Pasolini asks questions about all areas of sexuality to people of all ages and backgrounds. Children, housewives, working women, the elderly, bourgeois the city and farmers talk about virginity, the emancipation of women, prostitution or homosexuality. The director shows the differences between northern Italy and southern and greater relative freedom enjoyed by women working in the north on the Sicilian peasant, who can not go outside unless it is accompanied by her father or brother. Pasolini also introduces controversies remain valid today, such as prostitution, and others that fortunately have become outdated, like divorce, a novelty for Italy at the time, should be legal or not, the interviewer, far of neutrality, reveals his views against the legalization of brothels or in favor of divorce. Male homosexuality is seen as a big taboo for all respondents and women remain invisible, there is not even the slightest reference to it, Pasolini is, nevertheless, modest and not openly discussed the issue of contraceptive use, limited to talk generally about sexual freedom, especially for women, and not forgetting that sex is not a world apart and freedom in this area is closely linked to economic independence and the enjoyment of rights in other aspects of life . The questions to each other are interspersed with views and presentations of intellectual friends of the director, who, true to his Marxist ideas, not stop attacking, but a resounding not angry, capitalism and bourgeois morality.

Survey love not purport to be rigorous or statistical value, even provides data on the majority of the interviewees responses. Furthermore, most of them respond without any intimacy in front of his family, friends and a large crowd of onlookers at a time when people would be much less used to the cameras. This informality does not detract, especially once the weather, a great value as a testimony of how the issue was addressed in the 60's erotic, just a few years before the great sexual revolution.



Top Scenes:
  • One of the girls interviewed said their displeasure with the hypothetical idea of \u200b\u200bhaving a gay son and his desire for their children to be "normal" asking for understanding and empathy Pasolini and ignoring no doubt it's homosexuality.

Anecdotes:

  • The film did not get released in Spain in his day, probably for reasons of censorship. Survey love is the title given to it in some of his passes on television.
  • Apparently the idea came from the documentary when Pasolini traveled Italy in search of locations and extras for his famous adaptation of the Gospel of Matthew.


About the director:

Pier Paolo Pasolini or (Bologna 1922 - Rome 1975) was not only one of the leading filmmakers Italian, but a major poet, philologist and character cultural life of their country. He begins his film career with titles influenced by neorealism, as Accatone (1961) and Mamma Roma (1962), before going to work where social criticism and Marxist claims are made so más elaborada y más abstracta, como Pajaritos y pajarracos (1966) o Teorema (1968), películas que alterna con la adaptación de clásicos literarios, incluyendo el mismísimo Evangelio según San Mateo (1964), su obra más célebre. Gran polemista, la franqueza con la que hablaba tanto de sus ideas de izquierdas como de su homosexualidad lo convirtió en enemigo público número uno para los grupos conservadores italianos, hasta el punto de que se especula con la posibilidad de que alguna mano negra estuviera detrás de su asesinato, que conmocionó a la ya de por sí convulsionada Italia de los 70. El sexo se expone de forma naturalista, con gran vitality not without a certain coarseness, in his famous trilogy of life, formed by The Decameron (1971), The Canterbury Tales (1972) and The Thousand and One Nights (1974).

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Monday, December 17, 2007

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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.

Links: IMDB