Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Please Let me Go



   I'm not sure it that's extremely rare or more or less common, but I noticed that a "YES, YES" scene never catches my attention as much as a "please..., stop, don't, ple... no ! Let me gooo"   scene. Curiously, that remain true, even when the first is hard core porn and the second mild 'eroticism' (and, cetiris paribus I certainly like porn far more than I like eroticism). 

  Possibly the preference is a matter of generation. As far as I can remember the    "please..., stop, don't, ple... no ! Let me gooo" used to be far more common and the alternative favored by contemporaneity far less so. If that's a matter of demand them people's taste just changed, what is to be expected in matters of taste. 

  On the other hand I suspect that people's taste may not have changed that much, and maybe the offer changed by itself, in this case, with no concern for the demand. A organised_ totalitarian_ movement of censorship and indoctrination could be the main responsible for the "reform" of fiction in this particular direction. The stronger reason for this suspect (beyond the fact that the totalitarian movement actually exists as the hegemonic force in many influential fields)  raised by me is that porn (and it's mildest shadow) is a classification of  fiction, or to use other world a kind of "story". 

 One universal thing about stories is that to catch attention they must involve conflict. Does not matter if it is a 10 seconds scene about birds or a Mega-series composed by 100.000 comic books, something must be at stake. Even when we know that only one result is possible, because the gender conventions demand it (seduction will happen and end in intercourse, the heroes will defeat the villains and save the 'world as we know it', etc)  in some frame of suspended disbelieve we must doubt the conventions and see the possibility of surprise. Without that you have a German Art Movie, designed to bore the spectator up to the point when he feel superior to common mortals just for the fact that he "understands" this elevated, and esoteric, Language.                          

  If, as I tend to believe, porn stories are still stories, the ¨YES, YES" scenes have more in common with German Art Movies than they have with commercial cinema. And as far as I can tell the public taste here in Brasil didn't changed enough to prefer the first over the second, yet.   











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