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Release Date: 25 June, 2002 Retail Price: $24.95 OUR Price: $18.99 You SAVE: $5.96! Cast: |
The Image Reviews
Best Film about S/M
Radley Metzger, surely the most pretentious porn director ever, had many stregnths. In a field mostly populated by films shot with less merit than most family vacation movies, Metzger stands out with his gorgeous camera work and carefully scripted plots. He even gets pron actors who actually act, which is more shocking than the sex. The Image is possibly the best film made about a s/m relationship, and though there aren't many contenders for that throne, this is a totally enjoyable film with strong sexual scenes of a sado-masochistic nature. Check it out.
An Erotic Masterpiece
I just want to echo the praise for this film that I've read here. My advice is to watch the film alone, not with "friends." That way you can react to it without wondering if your reaction is getting approval. This is a very rare form of erotic film making in that it reflects a subject that all too easily could slide into salacious bad taste but manages to avoid it. That alone is a major achievement for Radley Metzger. The acting in the film is good and the direction is stellar, given what occurs. The only thing that seemed awkward to me was the narration which at times seemed too contrived. The end also seems incongruent. But the film deserves five stars because its flaws are nothing compared to what it accomplishes as erotic art. I have never see anything produced in the West that can compare within the genre. The only thing I can think of that handles this delicate subject with such aplomb is Japanese soft-core pornography. I think the Judeo-Christian tradition that informs so much of Western sexual mores taints all such eroticism as something dirty, sinful, perverse and something to be avoided. The Japanese, on the other hand, revel in eroticism. Though they have no problem churning out tasteless porno, like everyone else, they also have the ability to raise it to high art with little difficulty. Metzger is the only Western director I know of who has freed himself of the influence that makes the West see "abnormal" sex as distasteful.
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