Word: sado
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...present revival of interest in Hitler signifies anything beyond kinky fashion and souvenir hunting - the sort of impulse that, for years, has retained the jackboot and Hakenkreuz as essential furniture in the theater of sado masochistic imagination - it means that a degree of impatience with the demonic image has set in. What concerns the modern audience, and made Speer's memoir the bestseller it deservedly was, is not Hitler's myth but his documentary truth. What, beginning with his humanness, did he have in common with the people around us and with ourselves? What on earth...
...practiced by to day's soul snatchers seems suspiciously like a religious version of the Ludovico technique - that brain-blowing treatment administered to Alex, the anti-hero in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. It was designed to make him acceptable to society by ridding him of his sado-sexual violence. In the process Alex also lost his free will...
...there is one thing conservatives and liberals should, in their respective prejudices against sex and violence, be able to agree on curbing, it is sexual violence. This includes not only rape as in Frenzy and A Clockwork Orange, but sado-masochism in all its ugly forms. Any work of art, or scene within one, which depicts violence as stimulating, or sex as in its essence violent and exploitive, should be suppressed. If the many reviews and plot descriptions I have read are accurate, The Last Tango in Paris fits this latter category in its entirety. Its systematic degradation...
...exploitation. Playboy has not shared the famous names or good writers or clever staffers that fill the spaces between torsos. Instead, Oui borrows more from Playboy's rival magazine, the British monthly Penthouse. There are more spread-legs poses, more explicit drawings, and more references to fetishes and sado-masochism than Playboy runs...
Like its savage anti-hero Alex, A Clockwork Orange will soon be subjected to a tiny taste of the Ludovico Technique-that brain-blowing treatment that was to rid Alex of his sado-sexual violence. At the end of next month the Stanley Kubrick film will be temporarily withdrawn from theaters to allow the censors' scissors to transform it from an X- to an R-rated movie (children under 17 admitted with parent or guardian). After 60 days Clockwork will emerge from the Motion Picture Association of America's purification rite shorn of its scarlet letter...