Pepi, Luci, and Bom!! Exploration into Lesbianism

Pedro Almodovar's Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del monton was unlike any other film I had ever seen in my life. Almodovar's raunchy exploration of sexual tendencies that are hidden in Spain were very eye-opening and provocative. Although the movie was set in the 1980s, which was obvious through the fashion and music used in the movie, I felt that the movie was much more controversial than anything that would be shown in modern American cinema today.

 

What I found most interesting out of the film was the relationships of Luci, a housewife who wants to be sexual dominated but eventually leaves her husband for a woman. I found it to be particularly interesting that Luci was in a sexually submissive role with her husband and wanted to be dominated by him in bed. Then she enters a lesbian relationship with Bom, in which is sexually dominated, just as she wished, but is also submissive just like her relationship with her husband. So I found it to be quite ironic that Luci leaves one abusive relationship to enter another, because both her husband and Bom are verbally abusive and kept her submitted under their word, which she faithfully obeyed.