Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano
Directed by Hisayasu Sato
Written by Naoko Nishida based on the book by Atsuhiko Nakamura
Japan, 2010
Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano is perhaps the most heartfelt pornography film you will see this year. Blending the tragic personal lives of two young women, Lulu & Ayano, who respectively turn to porn to feel wanted and to survive. The film plays on comic notes but is largely focused on the overlying drama and horror of the Japanese porn industry, which exploits and abuses young women. It presents the industry as selling out it’s stars to the highest bidder at the expense of their personal volition. The women in particular, dreading the hyper-violent “rape scene”, which is as dirty and violent as it sounds.
The act of selling sex is not the issue of the hand (if it were, I’d take some objection to the film, which is still...
Directed by Hisayasu Sato
Written by Naoko Nishida based on the book by Atsuhiko Nakamura
Japan, 2010
Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano is perhaps the most heartfelt pornography film you will see this year. Blending the tragic personal lives of two young women, Lulu & Ayano, who respectively turn to porn to feel wanted and to survive. The film plays on comic notes but is largely focused on the overlying drama and horror of the Japanese porn industry, which exploits and abuses young women. It presents the industry as selling out it’s stars to the highest bidder at the expense of their personal volition. The women in particular, dreading the hyper-violent “rape scene”, which is as dirty and violent as it sounds.
The act of selling sex is not the issue of the hand (if it were, I’d take some objection to the film, which is still...
- 7/29/2011
- by Justine
- SoundOnSight
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