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Uh Oh! 1993 39 mins
Uh Oh! is an interpretation of the Story of Oh by Pauline Reage.
In this version both Oh and her lovers are women. Re-enacted scenes from
the book are intercut with a love story in which Oh is a waitress in a
diner in the desert and her lover is a cowboy/girl. The Story of Oh is
written very sparsely - it details sexual pleasure, domination, submission
and ritualized humiliation. In Uh Oh!, sado-masochistic sex is a
metaphor for love.
Sado-masochistic sexuality is still an outlaw sexuality, but sado-masochistic
love affairs and relationships are ubiquitous. We, the same people who
are shocked, shocked by the whip and the manacles are free to indulge
in, roller-coaster emotions rides that plug into the same nexus of domination,
submission and humiliation. The names are different, - passion, unrequited
love, longing, yearning - but this tape explores the ways in which
the terrain is the same.
Josephine Anstey |
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