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Friday, January 08, 2021

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)


Russ Meyer delivers a fast and intense study in feminine power, wrapped up in the form of overstated American concepts of beauty, itself a critique of a society in crisis even in 1965.

The female characters each represent the different aspects of the female sexuality: innocence, female dominance, intellect, desire for other females, anger at power men have over them, etc. Same with the men. The old man was crippled by trying to save a girl from a train; raging male desire, who are emasculated by that pursuit. He has his new body: son, to do his sexual work for him. The women are after his money, a familiar scenario. The other son is male rationality and emotional strength that women made infantile by a patriarchal society want; a daddy. The film is packed with symbols of human sexuality. New ones emerge with each viewing and interpretation, The story is brilliant and reminiscent of Greek tragedies and Shakespearean lessons.

Sunday, January 03, 2021

SOBHRAJ - Or How To Be Friends With A Serial Killer (2002)

Charles Sobhraj is a publicity whore who cares for nobody but himself. He slaughtered as many as 50 innocent young people, only for the purpose of an easy life for himself by robbing them, he even abandoned his accomplices when it suited him. He also killed with deceit and cruelty, in a cowardly way, and without regard for his victims and their families and how they all suffered. He is also a narcissistic sociopath and a psychopath. A narcissistic sociopath is a person who exhibits a combination of both sociopathic personality traits along with narcissistic personality disorder. Psychopathy is characterized by diagnostic features such as superficial charm, high intelligence, poor judgment and failure to learn from experience, pathological egocentricity and incapacity for love, lack of remorse or shame, impulsivity, grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying, manipulative behavior, poor self-control, promiscuous sexual behavior, juvenile delinquency, and criminal versatility, among others. Many of these traits are demonstrated by Sobhraj in this documentary from 2002.