Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Damned. Lucino Visconti's epic film about the rise and fall of a German industrial family producing heavy arms in Hitler's Germany (modeled on the Krupps) is among the best historical films ever made. It provides a particularly good focus on the connection between sexual perversity and power in Nazi Germany, and the representation of the Night of the Long Knives is extremely chilling. Helmut Berger finds his ideal role as the mother-fixated incompetent heir, and the raven haired young girl he molests is enough to turn anyone into a pedophile. Peter Kaplan...
...copulatory contest, sharing two whores each in a bed that crashes and skitters right out of the room; Casanova making love to a mechanical doll whose head spins wildly at the climactic moment; the rake's encounter with a worldly nun who is expert in 39 sexual positions...
PSYCHO-HISTORY, a field that has gained a reputation for raking great men over the coals, has hardly been kind to T.E. Lawrence. From several "psycho-biographies" and a Hollywood extravaganza, Lawrence emerges as the hidden sexual Frankenstein's monster of the modern age--a libidinal beast repressed by Victorian morality, then let loose and finally destroyed by post-World War I decadence. These accounts have reveled in the sordid side of the Lawrence myth, and there are certainly enough seedy details to make any Freudian's mouth water...
...desert escapades in narrow psychologism resembling this: Lawrence was illegitimate and dominated by a moralistic mother, and grew up a virginal bookworm lost somewhere in his studies of the Middle Ages. His rush into the Arab nationalist uprising in the 1910s was a subconscious effort to let loose his sexual-aggressive tendencies. But the consequences of this move for the innocent Lawrence were traumatic. He underwent a rude sexual awakening when a Turk captured and sodomized him at the height of the rebellion. From then on, Lawrence was lost to consuming guilt and shame and soon after the assault, Lawrence...
...Germany, the film cut artfully to the dazzling, perverse world of the cabaret, which grotesquely parodied an even more grotesque reality. The effect was to present a society in which decent human relationships were impossible, where human contacts were uniformly debased to the level of the Emcee's obscene sexual antics...