First I have to say watching this film in class setting was an extremely uncomfortable experience for me. Part of it of course is because my experience as a student in class mostly involves being in a conservative country and we have never had such open images screened in a class setting. However, I just feel in general we are taught from very early childhood that sexuality and that part of things is something more private so we are not use to watching something intense in an academic situation where every other student are present in the class.
The message of film for me was so controversial, it was not that clear that I could say the movie was trying to empower women and comment about their thrives for independent. Some characters mostly Pepi and Bom were mostly reflecting two independent women who were in charge of their desires. On the other hand, it looked like their only pleasure in life would come from sex! Sex that somehow was involve with men. Making sex toys, selling their virginity in order to get money! And worst of all was Lucy who was completely bond to her husband although he would hit her. She experienced freedom, she seemingly loved it but at the end she went back to being in bond?!
And the police man character was something that i could relate to it the most. Cause its somehow the reflection of a suppressive man who believes he can do anything and other women are all leaving so they can give him pleasure any time he wants, but his wife should be the one that only lives for him and she should not experience freedom and joy equally as he does. and the fact that he was a policeman, someone in the position of power made him even more interesting since that could be perceived as those who have the gun, or those who are in charge of our safety, they themselves abuse us and are the main source of crime and inequality.
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