"I shouted at the world again, and then someone blocked my mouth with a cloth, tied my hands and feet, and covered my eyes with a piece of cloth. I was pushed around many times, pulled up to stand up straight, and laid down on my back. This has been repeated many times. Someone pulled my foot for a while, and I resisted in pain. Someone actually let me be quiet for a while, but then someone poked me deeply with something sharp and looked around quickly, having no idea where I would poke it next time. " Quote: Kafka's "The most painful masochist in the world"
If some movies are too beautiful for heaven and earth, then some movies are destined to be too gray for heaven and earth. FUCK ME, co-directed by two female directors Virginia Depente and Cora Zheng Shi, is such a film that is not worthy of this world. This is an ideologically sad movie, which makes you feel sad after watching it. Crazy and violent scenes, restricted pornographic scenes and naked and straightforward narrative techniques are full of sex, sin, madness, destruction and subversion.
This film was made in 2000. Even in France, which is famous for its "freedom, democracy and equality", it was banned by the authorities three days after its first release because of its strong response. This is another "writer's film" that was banned in France after 1966, when The Nun directed by Jacques Levitt was banned. Before the official release, the film went through some hardships in the film censorship Committee of the National Film Center. In view of the fact that this erotic "writer's film" was recognized by the film industry when it was released at Cannes Film Festival, the film was finally released. When it was shown in the cinema, a notice was posted: "In view of the fact that this film is full of explicit sexual scenes and particularly strong violent images from beginning to end, it may stimulate the emotions of some viewers. "Three days later, the film was banned. After the ban was issued, with the support of some people, several cinemas, led by Betrox and MK2 distribution company, continued to show the film at the risk of being fined heavily. Some viewers even wrote "fuck me" on their foreheads to show their solidarity.
The story of the film is not complicated, but it is shocking. Manny, an innocent and lovely girl, occasionally makes some pornographic films and leads a quiet life. One day, she went to a remote place to drink with a friend who was a prostitute, and was dragged to an abandoned garage by four young men and raped. In the process of being raped, Manny never said a word and even cooperated with the mob in posture in the face of the shameless behavior of the gangster and the crying and screaming of his female companion. After the atrocity, Manny calmly and somberly said to his miserable female companion, "I will never let these bastards go, even if they rape me, I will hollow them out." Anyway, I am not a noble virgin. " When Manny came home with a whole body of pain, he couldn't get her boyfriend's care and understanding at all. In this extreme emotion, she had an argument with her boyfriend. In a rage, she accidentally shot her boyfriend and then walked into the street in a trance. Nadine, the other heroine, is an ordinary woman who follows the rules. One night, Nadine was molested and harassed by a rogue when she passed the subway station. Nadine's bag was strangled by hooligans in the fight, and then she fled the scene in a hurry. This is how the two women met. From each other's frightened expression, they can judge each other as their own kind and recognize each other as partners through their sixth sense. So they stole a car and started a life full of freedom and rebirth.
One night, they came to an ATM beside a highway, robbed a woman's credit card and then killed her. From then on, they began a life of unbridled violence. They drove on the road, robbed many people and killed many people. As long as they find something missing, they will try their best to grab it. They even killed the owner of a weapons store and everyone got a good gun. Two people are inseparable, like a pair of happy sisters. After each robbery or murder, they all snuggled together, drinking coffee quietly and happily, and talking about their families. They also often find some men and have sex with them. However, unlike before, they changed their humiliation and passivity in this kind of sex game, but occupied a condescending position. In their eyes, those men are more like a group of sex slaves who serve them. After using it, they will gently say "get out" and then laugh. Men who accost or covet them will not hesitate to kill them.
Their crazy criminal behavior finally caught the attention of the police. In a spot check, they were forced to kill several policemen. At the scene, they met a sensitive and kind woman and followed her back to their residence. During the few days with this woman, they felt unprecedented warmth and tranquility, and their psychology began to change subtly.
One day, Manny suddenly said to Nadine, "I don't want to do it." I am tired of it. " So they plan to make one last move before stopping. This time they came to a rich man's house and robbed him of a bag of jewels in his safe, but they did not hesitate to raise their guns in the face of the man who begged for mercy. The two men were drinking coffee and jewels excitedly in a bloody garden, intending to celebrate their victory. Just then, they found a card that said "slutty club".
The "debauchery club" is a very promiscuous place, where many men and women of all kinds engage in unsightly pornography. Manny and Nadine came to this club and asked for a glass of wine. After drinking leisurely, they raised their guns and shot wildly, killing everyone in the club. A man molested them. Manny told him to take off his pants and make him look like a dog. He pointed a gun at his anus and shot him. Then they left the scene happily.
They started their escape life again. Finally, one day Manny was killed by the shopkeeper while shopping on the roadside. When Nadine heard the gunshot, it was too late. She killed the shopkeeper, carried Manny's body to a lake and cremated her body with tears in her eyes. Later, she sat by the lake and pointed a gun at her head. But just before she pulled the trigger, a group of policemen rushed up and pushed her to the ground. This is the end of the movie.
This is a movie era, and any movie element seems to be no longer fresh. Sex and violence are just the green gauze in brothels. When it is uncovered, it is a pile of meat that men and women love. But the extreme feminism and deviant line drawing in this film still shocked people's spirit. When we calmed down a little, we began to think involuntarily, what made the two injured women fight violence with violence, play a desperate killing game and embark on a road of no return? Just announce their existence to the society, vent their dissatisfaction and tell people that they are still alive? It seems to be much more than that.
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Their feelings and lives are like ants in male society. The name of the hero is not important at all, even the dialogue is dispensable. When it comes to rights and humanity, prostitutes also have chastity. The director questioned the existence of women themselves, but did not answer, leaving only those naked violent pornographic scenes and unforgettable sad melodies. The shock brought by thinking is not detached. Conscience is buried deep at the foot of ten miles, and it is also covered with a gray cloak of blood, sin, violence and sex. The occasional warmth and tranquility are as subtle but firm as a girl's sense of shame, and the heroine's final outcome cruelly squeezes our hearts like a torture device-she has no right to choose a better life, but she doesn't even have the right to choose death.
Sex has no aesthetic feeling in this film, and eroticism, as an ambiguous and imaginative word, has been questioned naked here. Turning over the past erotic films will either make people laugh or make people smile. Even if they can't laugh, there is a little black humor. However, after watching this film, I believe most people can only laugh. In the film, sex started as a tyrant and later appeared as a slave. This role change seems to be seeking new gender equality with new gender violence. In fact, the two heroines never put down their guns. Sometimes they are aimed at men, sometimes at women, and sometimes at the whole world.
Compared with similar films, the most prominent difference of this film is that it doesn't bring any pleasure and pleasure at all. As for the thinking that this film can bring, it seems a little helpless. From beginning to end, the film is full of refusal, refusal to be raped, refusal to be played, refusal to be ignored, and refusal to all tangible and intangible oppression in civilized society. This is an era when the whole world is shouting for women's rights and human rights. Aside from the director's analysis and satire on social civilization revealed from the gap in the film, and the heroine's seemingly crazy but helpless resistance and denial of everything including herself, we can confidently think that it is not just women who are truly sad in this world just because of the shock, debate or thinking brought by this film since its appearance.
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What can we say? I think we'd better say nothing and watch the movie quietly. Then, in the depressed and frustrated thinking and confusion it brings us, we will continue to live our lives happily.