What’s better than sex-crazed beatniks?
Why, Japanese sex crazed beatniks of course! I think this film actually came out after ‘beat’ had it’s heyday (don’t know what it was like in Japan…..) but still has that look and feel due to the clothing, the jazz. The japanese also got away with being more openly S+M of course. ‘They do everything-’ Count how many times the narrator guy says the title of the film.
(ed. note- not so surprisingly, this one was yanked too, sorry)
God, who the hell translated that one? The “Mad Fuckers” is more like it…
That guy doesn’t seem like the Al I know at all….
The Japanese title is ‘Kyonetsu no kisetsu’ if that helps in the quest for a proper translation-
From a review I read on IMDB, the plot centers around a woman who falls in love with a small time criminal who rapes her; this was considered to ‘not be to the taste of western audiences’, but makes for an interesting dramatic twist I say - complicated emotions. Cronenberg touched upon a similar thing in last years ‘History of Violence’: the female character has a ‘bad girl’ thing established early on. Then they come to that great ambiguous scene on the staircase (spoiler ahead!)- he is wanting reconsiliation and forgiveness but essentially forces himself on his wife; she is torn by being disgusted by the betrayal of the man she thought was her husband who was actually a psycho mobster in his past, though at the same time is turned on by the animal power discovered in this stranger she thought she knew. It goes mostly unspoken because if you come right out and say this sort of thing, western audiences get squeemish quickly.
Yep… never met a Japanese beatnik animal-powered petty criminal I didn’t secretly desire would rape me. And Cronenberg is the biggest full of shit filmmaker who ever walked the planet.
Well, not everyone is going to empathize with every character in the realm of fiction, that’s what diversity is all about. I always thought Luke Skywalker was a little soft, but you know, he’s the good guy. I can tell you Hannibal Lecter is an unforgetable villian without ever having eaten anyone myself, or really wanting too.
Wow, you didn’t like ‘Crash’ either? ‘Videodrome’? ‘Naked Lunch’?
Sada, from Oshima’s ‘In the Realm of the Senses’ is one of my favorite characters ever, but I have no desire to have my cock chopped off (at least no conscious desire….).
“And Cronenberg is the biggest full of shit filmmaker who ever walked the planet.”
Wow.. I don’t know even where to begin on how big a undescriptive brush that is.