Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Jeune & Jolie


Also Known As:
Young & Beautiful (2013)…
Year:
2013
Country:
France…
Predominant Genre:
Drama
Director:
François OZON…
Outstanding Performances:
Charlotte RAMPLING… Marine VACTH…
Premiss:
After losing her virginity, a teenager begins a secret life as a call-girl; meeting her clients for hotel-room trysts.
Themes:
Alienation | Coming-of-age | Courage | Destiny | Emotional repression | Ethnicity | Family | Guilt | Identity | Loneliness | Materialism | Narcissism | Original Sin | Political | Pornography | Self-expression | Sexism | Sexual Repression | Solipsism | White culture | White supremacy
Similar to:
Belle de Jour (1967)…
Review Format:
DVD

Once a Prostitute, Always a Prostitute

Summary: Fine Summation of White sexual disaffection.

Interesting film about the White male dislike of White women which successfully explores the fact that this leads White women to live double lives in order to have any emotional satisfactions at all.

The emotional dissociation from pleasure and the anhedonia of the characters are well-presented and explain why prostitution (like its sister activity, pornography) should be so prevalent in an allegedly sexually-liberated Western culture.

The central issue here, becomes not that ones daughter is a prostitute, but that she wants to discover what others fear and avoid: A full life. The fact that she has made a dangerous choice is irrelevant to the fact that she feels the need to make such a choice - despite the obvious, extra-cultural alternatives.

Marine VACTH’s character tries to understand why sex is a problem for Whites yet, in the process, merely discovers White male lust as a substitute for desire - from which she cannot discover her true feminine self; leaving her as anhedonic as before. As an actress, VACTH captures the duality of her character effortlessly - along with the baleful affects of the White need for a pornography from which Whites learn their sexual behaviors.

The problem with this film is that it does not roam outside its own culture to discover a better way for people to live their sexual lives; something Whites clearly believe is impossible since Whites do not believe they can learn anything useful from anyone not White; giving the clear sense, here, of characters trapped in a social abyss of their own making.


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Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes… (1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.


Humans & Aliens:



I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.



Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.