The Daughter's Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis

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The story loses none of Waters’ fascination with gender and class, merely transposes it on to another society. The traditional family model of apple-pie America was being blurred, with the accompanying moral panic hardly helped by the fact that the emergence of convenient birth control had granted women a sexual freedom hitherto unseen. My daughter was in night nappies when she started going to school and I WON'T apologise for it - no one. And the worst of them, and the ones that fall flattest on their faces, are the ones that box out completely even the tiniest possibility of humour. The puppet-based action blockbuster arrived just in time, in 2004, when the movie world was still debating the issues of extreme sex in Irreversible, real sex in 9 Songs and Oscar-winning sex in Monster's Ball.

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Crucially, though, the film treats our 17-year-old protagonist’s unexpected gay romance not as some urgent identity crisis but simply as a thrilling dalliance that he is swept along by, enjoys while it lasts and is left saddened when it ends. While Clint Eastwood had embodied the morally dubious antihero of the Watergate-tainted 70s, this new era of American self-confidence needed a different kind of icon: ripped, righteous and ripe with cheap one-liners.But most interesting is the genre’s treatment of women, which in most cases was a straightforward updating of the femme fatale – the unchaste evildoers of film noir – but in some instances was a bit more thoughtful.

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And his warped urges are in turn tied up in the idea of observing: when his neighbour Helen kisses him, he bizarrely kisses the lens of his camera. Go back to what your mother taught you': TV presenter Susannah Constantine on the six money-saving hacks that helped her cut energy use on laundry by a THIRD!And when it comes to human and computer programme, well, Weird Science, Electric Dreams and S1m0ne have all tackled that from one angle or other.

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The film’s ingenious premise not only cast sex as the killer and the saviour, it also paved the way for some smart scenes of moral fretting and male opportunism – and of course, plenty of frantic copulating. He likes helicopters, cars, motorbikes, boardroom takeovers and having complete erotic control over submissive women. The Wachowski siblings’ directorial debut tells the story of Corky, a charismatic ex-con who begin an affair with the wife of a mafia money-launderer and together the pair hatch a plan to make off with a big bag of the abusive husband's cash.The point, presumably, is that it is precisely this messiness and irrationality that makes such self-destructive compulsions so powerful: if they were easily explained, they would be easily overcome. It pitches Fassbender's anti-hero, Brandon, through a series of contemporary sexual scenarios – from the benign (internet porn) to the slightly, well, eccentric (fetishistic gay bar followed by a threesome with prostitutes) – and watches him crumble to nothing when faced with the seemingly simplest of sexual tasks, namely, to experience a physical encounter with a woman he likes, and indeed might love. The relationship between Joaquin Phoenix’s miserable Theodore and his husky-voiced operating system (Scarlett Johansson, obviously) is sincere and candid – on the part of both parties – and is played for neither easy laughs nor clever-clogs social satire.