Moonlight Whispers
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The other film that Richard and I watched together which I felt worthy of comment was Moonlight Whispers, which gives a very sympathetic depiction of a young Japanese teenager’s discovery of his sexuality.
After having ‘vanilla’ sex with his school crush for the first time, he is dissatisfied with the experience and so his masochistic feelings begin to leak to the surface.
This leads to his girlfriend calling him a pervert hatefully, and she distrusts and is offended by his advances (such as wishing he could be her ‘dog’ and tape-recording her on the toilet), but this non-erotic anger segues seamlessly into erotic sadism in an almost hypocritical way. He offends her inadvertantly by suggesting her dirty sock is more important to him than their sexual encounter in bed, and both sides of the paradoxical and at times explosive relationship are well presented through the script.
One thing I noticed was that the masochistic boy seemed to be in a dangerous mental state at times, and the dynamics of the couple get a little crazy. This culminates when she tells him she would be better off if he were dead, and commands him to jump over a waterfall (which he does, hospitalizing himself).
Most of the cute scenes were too short for me, with the cuckoldry being the most drawn-out episodes. It didn’t do much for me erotically and I couldn’t connect to a lot of her sadism, which seemed to be of the non-loving type, but it was refreshing to see what seemed to be a happy ending.
Comments
Just randomly found your blog and I have to say it looks fascinating. I’m a bdsm addict I think. At any rate I’ll keep an eye out for moonlight whispers, it sounds like a good watch—- my boyfriend might benefit from it as well (and to think, before me he was completely innocent to the ways of bdsm…)
Posted by: bec | May 8, 2006 4:21 AM
Thanks bec :) Well I seem to be alternating between intense erotic play and then periods of wondering why we aren’t doing anything. I suppose that at least makes a change to most of the blogs where they are more experienced.
Definately watch the film if you can, it was kinda fun.
Posted by: Alexandra | May 21, 2006 9:31 PM