(M) Anatomie de l'enfer (Anatomy of Hell) [2004, Catherine Breillat]
Grade: B-/C+
I'll try to sum this up here and go into detail in the comment section so I don't take up too much space on the main board. Basically a woman pays a gay man to watch her in her most intimate moments. She chooses a gay man so he will not be aroused by her nakedness and their communication can be honest.
Over four nights this man and woman communicate orally and physically. The conversation is the discussion of man's internal disgust and hatred of woman. Why men treat and them as they do and how men view women. It's not a pretty story. There are VERY graphic images in here and nudity and sexual situations, not for the purpose or erotic pleasure.
If you want to read more you can see the comment I leave for this post.
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After I watched this movie I went on to a message board to see some other opions of the movie. Here is what the general feeling was... disgusting, pointless, and a waste of time.
These had to be Americans!!
Here is what caused their reactions of disgust as provided by a list from one posting:
- Brief gay oral sex (the first shot of the movie, no less)
- Finger inserted into wet vagina (a bit gross)
- Finger inserted into bloody vagina (even worse)
- Some dildo play
- Bloody tampon put in a glass of water, then drinking of said water
- Pitchfork inserted into woman (not the pointy end mind you)
- Close up shot of penis removed from vagina, then vagina oozing blood (the crowning achievement in disgustingness)
I found it interesting of a male's disgust for what is scene in this movie. Many people actually may find this disgusting and that's fine. To me it just shows how society in America shapes people. Mens disgust for a woman's body and the fuunctions of it not only is presented in the movie but then amusingly enough expressed in the reviews, as if they didn't realize the movie was speaking out against the people who were posting. I don't know, I found it amusing.
I mean, imagine if this was a real life situation. You go to a movie, a woman looks at the screen and says, "You will find this disgusting and there's no reason to because this is life." and then the camera pans down to a woman is putting a tampon in her vagina and then credits role. Then guys go to a message board and post how disgusting the movie was. It's like, are you an idiot?! Do you not see the movie is speaking out against people like you!!
Okay, anyway... here are my opinions. I thought this was a good movie and really just shined a light on the male female relationship. I'm not saying it's right on and correct but there's definitely a reality in life that people or men just seem to try not to acknowledge as existing. Like with the posts I found on the message board. The males found the insertion of a finger into a vagina and also a bloody vagina as gross. Uh, that's life. That's what happens. Blood comes out of there guys and things go in there. I'm sure the guy who posted those comments would have no problem sticking his finger in Angelina Jolie's vagina, would he find it gross?
The tampon part was very interesting. I think a lot of people found this disgusting. I was put back by it but you know what... it's blood. You know what's contained in semen? Blood. But guys don't seem to have a problem with girls putting that in their mouth, it's all over porn.
The scene where the man inserts the garden tool into the woman... again I saw this as man's desire to dominate women. He does it when she's asleep no less. If men could do anything when a woman was asleep and get away with it, I think in the recesses of man's mind you'd worse things can be done that this garden tool. Not only that but the people who were disgusted by it probably go online and fnd women inserting all sorts of things into themselves.
The close up of the penis being pulled out of the vagina after ejaculation and the mixture of blood and semen... uhhhh... same thing, why is there no problem with the semen in women but there's disgust when what a woman makes becomes involved. It's very interesting.
I'm not trying to say that I wasn't put back by any of this and that I wasn't affected in any way. Trust me, I was, but that's the point... it makes you think. Why is this okay but not this?
I think the female has always been a fascinating thing to men both by attraction and repulsion and this movie expresses that. I thought it was quite interesting and I was glad I watched it. If any of the female posters on this board watch this movie, PLEASE let me know what you thought. The director of this movie also did another controversial movie called Romance. If you've seen that, let me know what you thought of it as well.
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