Word: voyeurism
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...pink nude silhouette pulsates through the translucent blue picture window, beckoning the camera voyeur into the Blue Orchid photographic studio. Like dozens of others that have burgeoned in cities across the land, it panders to the new permissiveness. Rent a model-in-the-raw, only $15 for 30 minutes of poses of your choice, camera provided, film and processing slightly extra. But the Blue Orchid is a little different. In the orange-carpeted room where models await customers, the bookcase is filled with such unlikely tomes as Integrated Principles of Zoology and Quantitative Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Reason: of the roster...
...Model. The British press was quick to raise some questions about the council's own taste-and the accuracy of its claims. Citing Novelist John Masters' 1969 biography, Casanova, editorial writers pointed out that, far from being a model sexual citizen, Casanova practiced bisexuality and was a voyeur and even an abortionist. Moreover, while he may not have got anyone else into trouble, he certainly got into enough himself, suffering frequent bouts of venereal disease-including syphilis. Furthermore, Masters notes, Casanova sometimes refused to use condoms. After one of his mistresses, identified in his autobiography only...
...Prince, though he is slow setting the narrative in motion, soon enough hits a satisfying, brisk pace. The product has an elegant playfulness which spares it from the pall which pervades black comedy of the Losey-Pinter genre. Contributing to the atmosphere of levity are Heidelinde Weiss as the voyeur daughter and Anthony Corlan as the homosexual son. They give two wildly funny performances...
...hero (O'Connor), is obsessed by Tynan, referring to him as being "uptight with now," or else identifying with him: "I am up there with Ken Tynan and all the great lovers, all the major erotic figures." What Jake actually is, of course, is autoerotic, an onanistic intellectual voyeur...
Still, no one else could have brought a tenth of the Satyricon to the screen without the customary lubricity and X-rated smirks. When, in a climactic scene, Encolpius recovers his potency at the thighs of a gigantic black Venus, the viewer feels less a voyeur than an observer of some elemental sexual ritual brought intact from the beginning of the world. To be sure, between such moments, the film proves so personal that it amounts to solipsism. "The pearl," as the director once modestly observed, "is only the oyster's autobiography." Fellini Satyricon, at the end, may even...