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...SADO-MASCOTISM...
...does not just play drums this enormous-to approach them is a discipline. Kodo is formed by a community of artists living on Sado Island in the Sea of Japan. While their perfect synchrony and physically rigorous technique approaches the martial arts, the group expresses an infectious playfulness and joy. Kodo reveal a childlike approach to drumming in the Japanese characters of their name, which can mean either "children of the drum" or "heartbeat," the original rhythm of the mother's heartbeat as first heard in the womb...
...hard to stop. Some have been cutting all their lives, now in their '40s or '50s, they are finally seeking help. Although self-abuse is not a new phenomenon, Strong reports that it is growing. In cities like San Francisco, there is a sub-culture of piercing and sado-masochism. "The growing social acceptance of at least some of the so-called body arts has blurred the line between self-expression and pathology," Strong says...
Watching a movie is a consensual act of sadomasochism. Sado: the people making the film are going through torture to entertain us. Maso: they are also torturing us with the whip of seductiveness and the clamps of suspense. In most films this unholy relationship is tacit; we suspend disbelief, forget our connivance in the covenant. The Game yanks this affair center screen and dares the viewer not only to think about it but also to feel it--feel creepy, feel scared, feel guilty...
...Supervixen: She's got the right sort of name--Xenia Onatopp (get it?)--the right sort of attitude--sado-masochistic--and the right sort of wardrobe--parodically sexy--but Famke Janssen is more aggressive than seductive. You know too soon where she's coming from--out of an abnormal psychology text...