Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
Sounds like someone’s been having an interesting week in Toronto...
Re: Hole in My Heart and Anatomie de l'enfer
SPOILERS!!!
Hole in My Heart
Yeah, okay, I saw it. And it is pretty fucked up. At least Irreversible had a plot and a bit of style.
The main premise of HIMH is that a guy and his two friends (one male and one female) are making a porn flick in this loser's shabby apartment when things get out of hand and they guys threaten to turn the shoot into a rape/snuff movie. The woman takes off but then comes back again because the rest of the world is so ugly and boring. Um, yeah, so boring she would rather hang with the guys who were about to rape her. Anyway, they have dinner and drink too much and more awful and degrading stuff happens to her.
Here's a list of some of the things you will see:
a.. Footage of the labia reduction surgery the woman had in order to have a 'prettier pussy'
b.. Simulated double penetration of the woman
c.. One of the guys peeing in a glass while screaming she is going to have to drink it
d.. One of the guys vomiting into her open mouth
You get the idea. Meanwhile, one of the guys' teenaged son is in the apartment in his bedroom and the father is concerned that they don't talk or communicate anymore.
I'm sure there are all sorts of subtext regarding the allure of fame etc. But you'll have to decide whether this film is any better than all the other films making the same statement.
Anatomie de l'enfer
Another Catherine Breillat film that deals with sex. The title translates to "Anatomy of Hell". The Anatomy of Hell is this movie. The very first image of this movie is a back alley B.J. between two men. Cut to a gay dance club where the lead actress goes into the bathroom to slit her wrists because "she's a woman". Porn star and lead actor of this movie Rocco Siffredi rescues her and takes her away to get bandaged up. On the way home she drops to her knees to service him. After which, she has a mouth full of spooge which she swallows. You don't see the actual act but it is the first time (of many) that Rocco's erect penis appears. She offers to pay Rocco, a misogynist gay male, to "watch her where she is unwatchable". He accepts.
What follows is four nights of seeing them in the nude and hearing them talk about why men are destroyers and women are creators. And why men hate women. And why men subjugate women. And why men hate vaginas. Every time one of them would say "men do this because." or "men hate women because." I just wanted to scream about oversimplification and stereotypes and the fact that in the 21st century, all men don't hate all women because they bleed without having a wound.
If you think some of the scenes in HIMH were bad, try watching a used tampon being placed in a glass of water then watching the two actors drink it. Then, a bit later, watching them have sex and when Rocco pulls out, a geyser of menstrual blood comes out of the woman covering Rocco's hard penis. (The director reallllly likes Rocco. I have heard she has used his penis in her other movies as a stunt cock and as a mould for a prosthesis.) Now the fact that it was menstrual blood does not really affect me - it's no different than seeing a geyser of blood come out of someone's neck in Kill Bill or Zaitoichi. But of course, now they have to talk about how men hate menstrual blood and how a man must have designed a tampon etc. I can withstand some man bashing but watching and listening to this tripe is kind of like hearing someone complain about "women's lib". The world has moved on to bigger issues within the gender war.
This isn't the end of my Sex Film Festival: I still have tickets to 'A Dirty Shame', 'Kinsey' and '9 Songs'. Hopefully, I can get some satisfaction at some point this week.
-- Digrizz --
Looking at that list, it’s pretty obvious what you’ve got on your mind. So keep sending us reviews!!
"Moriarty" out.
