Bandages can't fix bullet holes (Taylor Swift). The onslaught on women would take generations to fix, or would it?
Romance (1999) starring Caroline Ducey as Marie, is a sarcastic depiction of a sex starved woman in a youthful marriage. Sarcastic because a youthful marriage is supposed to be full of sex. Innocent looking and pretty Marie is depicted as a Nymphomaniac whose only problem in life is a good cock.
The joke truly is on love and lovers beware!!! Here are some themes related to society that you might have missed.
- The blindness of fools:
Marie takes off in the middle of the night leaving her spouse in bed, and heads to a club where she meets another man and arranges to have sex. My husband is asleep at home, she tells him. This is to symbolize the 'sleeping fools' in reality who are unaware of the sexual activities of young girls. In reality, its the system who puts the 'fools' to sleep through deceptive practices like 'fake friendships', 'hard jobs', and a stressful life.
In addition, a guy who's just had Marie's ass roughly on the hard stairs walks right past her returning husband and he has no clue what has just transpired with his wife.
- The bonds on Love:
'No I don't like tenderness, or to be kissed on the mouth. I couldn't stand that'. I don't care who stuffs my cunt.'... Isn't this a sarcastic statement? This statement made by Marie just goes to symbolize the bonds of entrapment that are placed on women, which have made it compulsory for women to be forcefully stripped of love through various degrading, deceitful, and humiliating practices including stripping, prostituting, dirty dancing, nudity, and gangbangs.
On the other hand, Robert makes a statement claiming that he has had over 10,000 women and that women would rather give love to an ugly stranger than a loving person who begs for it. This is a controversial statement because it truly isn't the unwillingness of women to be loved but rather the bonds of enslavement and entrapment placed on women.
- Women are for sale:
In the movie, Marie's husband is relaxing at a diner while Marie walks off and is accosted by a stranger; '$20 just to eat you' he says, and Marie spreads her legs wide open for him on the stairs to her apartment and he takes her roughly until her knees become sore. This just exposes the fact that women are on sale in society, and am not referring to the prostitutes in the brothels, girls are on sale in mockery of lovers. So be careful the effort you put into winning love, at least until we are sure that the bonds of enslavement and entrapment have been broken.
- The destruction of love:
Marie with legs wide open becomes a specimen for medical interns who take turns to penetrate her vagina with probing fingers. She also fantasizes about a glory hole contraption where countless dicks grope and penetrate her. After all these scenes, the movie then symbolizes that her husband finally makes love to her.This is symbolic of her women are passed around in the system before they are permitted to love. So what enviousness, what mindset would make a man insatiable or too proud to watch a couple in love, that it has to become compulsory for the woman to first be passed around?
- Sadist bond masters:
After Robert (Francois Berleand) walks in on Marie teaching, he takes her to his office. In his office we are given an impression of Marie as an incompetent teacher who needs to be punished. However, in protest, Marie asks sarcastically, how did I pass my teachers exams? or how did I get my driver's license? This is symbolic of young women being set-up for unnecessary disgrace or humiliation in form of BDSM or submissive male domination practices. Even when they are not at fault, the enslaver cooks up excuses to satisfy his sadistic tendencies.
The irony of the sadistic bond masters who entrap and enslave women is that they pretend to be in charge or in control of celebrations and fun activities. What is funny about hurting someone else? What is funny about cheating your own blood relative or fellow human being? Celebration is a mirage, a facade that hasn't yet been actualized.
Shall I dominate you? That is the question Robert asks Marie before he starts his sadistic practices. In reality the question is; Why would a young woman want to be tied up like a prisoner of war? Or where the Nazis in concentration camps being romantic? Our society definitely has questions to answer, questions we must all ask ourselves. Yes a young man might get excited by the moans of a woman and trust harder and deeper to please her more, but a purposeful intent to inflict pain and discomfort, if necessary, should be reserved for women who are way past sexual prime and need extra yards of stimulation to get a feel of sexual pleasure.
- Who is to blame:
The movie insinuates that Marie goes for the BDSM punishments after being a naughty girl. For example, after giving herself out to the stranger who priced her for $20, she returns to Robert to be tied up in a discomforting posture like an animal to be slaughtered. The question is; Who is to blame? Is Marie to blame for being bonded to be slutty? Is she to blame for being bonded to not give love to lovers? Is it justifiable to make a hobby or income out of sadistic practices like humiliation and bondage. This stark reality about our humanity is also vividly portrayed in the movie Nymphomaniac, where we see a guy who makes an income from a retinue of women who come to pay for his sadistic practices.
It is just cheap blackmail, to make a person do something and yet accuse them of doing it. To modern day youths it seems like sexual pleasure but it should be known that many women have been put through nude public humiliation walk of shame, and in some parts of the world, some women still get tortured or burnt to death for a problem which is largely the fault of the accusers. This is Film Noir, a sarcastic approach to accepted norms in society.
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