(Film Weekend) Sex, Women, and Vulnerability. (Part 1)

This weekend I saw both Under the Skin, and Nymphomaniac Volume 2. They both dealt heavily with rape culture and ended in a very sad basic conclusion: Men are scum. (?)
But honestly, each film was so intricate and had such beautiful, realistic and depressing hidden messages. They truly made you think about things that woman possess beyond their exterior surface:

Our power with sex
Our powerlessness with sex

Think about it. The power to lure and destroy with our sexuality, and to be lured and destroyed by the very same device by men.

In Under the Skin, we see our nameless main character (portrayed by Scarlett Johansen) playing a seductress and luring  men into her van. By doing so, she then invites them in what turns out to be a secret lair of death. She begins walking infront of them by taunting them with her body...causing the men to follow a trail to fulfill their sexual desires at any cost- ultimately ending in a pool of death.

There is a turning point in the film where she has become distraught. She has derived human emotions of sadness and possibly guilt- causing her to become vulnerable.

While on a bus and clearly distressed, a man offers his help. As part of the audience myself, I found his character to be alarming and possible threat.
Eventually, through his hospitality, kindness, and tenderness, it is made to be that he had won her trust, and also mine as a participant in the audience.

The man then having total control of her vulnerability; simply put, fucks her, cums within seconds, and aggressively slaps her upon her resistance.

Ultimately... you see the deceitful and selfish act that is called sex.


...Please stay tuned for part 2 for my analysis :)

I feel a change coming

4/10/14

Its the strangest thing when you can feel yourself literally transforming. 
I tend to exemplify things in ways through movies or music.

Have you ever seen the movie "Her."?

Disregarding all the buzz around it, I felt it  became very dear and personal to me because it hit my heart in various ways. That's the power of film, movies that provoke your deepest thoughts to surface to the forefront of your mind, some you didn't even know you had. Moments of clarity. Sudden epiphanies. Films that creep their way into the human psyche..so much so that you love it, you hate it, you're frightened by it. Each person ends things with their own conclusions- their very own personal interpretations. Every ending is different.  It's so insanely profound and and I live for it <3

Something I took from the film "Her" was this message that we as humans  are constantly evolving. The more we learn, the more we change, the more we want. We are never the same and are constantly growing at every single moment. We get new ideas, and our minds and hearts expand. We learn to think different. We learn to crave different. And we our being filled with these experiences and memories that cause us to change. Change is inevitable and we are forever growing. 

The movie began conjuring these new thoughts and ideas in my head, things started making sense as I sat there in the movie theater. It was hitting marks in my head. Upon my sudden realization , I felt I saw an insight to the human mind. I felt a had a secret little power by owning the idea of these very thoughts. And it made me happy and sad at the same time.