Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that true happiness can be found, however transiently, in a relationship of domination and submission. Nothing Wertmuller does in the film undercuts this impression; ultimately, she loses her critical distance from her material and is carried away by the logic of the relationship. Though she set out to satirize sexual stereotypes, Wertmuller ends up reaffirming them...
...first glance, Swept Away seems to bear a sexist message. Its protagonists are conventional sexual stereotypes. Raffaella (played by Mariangela Melata) is a rich capitalist bitch vacationing on a chartered yacht, most in her element when berating the deckhand who brings her iced coffee for the offensive odor of his sweaty shirt; Gennarino (Giancarlo Giannini) is the long-suffering deckhand, devoted equally to the Communist Party and to machismo. The plot is equally classic: shipwrecked together on a beautiful mediterranean isle, the two characters reverse roles entirely. Proletarian Gennarino humiliates bourgeois Rafaella sadistically, avenging class oppression and affronts...
...sympathetic reading of the film, Wertmuller has selected a conventional fantasy and stereotypic characters to parody the pervasively destructive effects of the link between sexual and social roles in Italian life. Even on a desert island the lovers must reproduce the warped roles of their society; the only type of relationship they can have is master to slave, since Gennarino's anger and Raffaella's masochism are so deeply rooted in their characters. If this were truly the thrust of the film, Swept Away would be a compelling feminist film effectively connecting sex and politics...
...virginity in a Harvard dormitory. "Is this what I've been going through all this torment about?" And Clifford Irving's first thought after his first time was, "That was lousy. I've got to fuck someone else." Perhaps it's just one of the facts of life that sexual initiation is a drag. Nevertheless, the subject continues to hold a certain fascination, whose power can be measured by the number of people who are probably going to read this book...
...contortions" that came pouring out, and particularly surprised that they "were suffered equally by the men--the women had all the pressure not to do it, but the men had all the pressure to do it." And although obviously things have changed over the years and the chains of sexual repression have been loosened somewhat, Anne says she came to realize that things aren't as different now as they might seem...