Thursday 22 December 2011

愛のコリーダ
(1976)


Also Known As:
In the Realm of the Senses (1976)…
Year:
1976
Countries:
France… Japan…
Predominant Genre:
Romance
Director:
Nagisa Oshima…
Outstanding Performances:
None
Premiss:
A man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair; resulting in a sexual obsession so strong that they forsake all else.
Themes:
Alienation | Destiny | Emotional repression | Identity | Loneliness | Narcissism | Pornography | Self-expression | Sexual Repression | Snobbery | Solipsism | Totalitarianism
Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
Jitsuroku Abe Sada (1975)…
Review Format:
Cinema

[Ai no Korîda]

Summary: Obsessing about sexual obsession.

Clever movie about sexual obsession and erotic jealousy that manages to avoid being an obsessive and self-indulgent exercise in itself.

The claustrophobia of obsessive relationships is well presented, as is the fact that the couple here are trying to escape difficult social circumstances rather more than they are actually in love with one another.

The more sex the central characters engage in, the more sex they need to engage in, in order to recreate the initial hedonistic pleasure. They become addicted to each other and can no longer be apart; inevitably leading to sadomasochism and a literal, as well as an emotional, death.

While love often causes sex, sex never causes love.

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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes… (1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.


Humans & Aliens:



I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.



Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.