So, after spending 2 hours seeing volume 1, on Netflix streaming movies, I watched volume 2 the next day. Overall it was a big disappointment.
Volume 1 set up the story, of a woman named Joe, telling her story to a man named Seligman. As she recounted finding her sexual spot when she was only two, and learning some self-erotic activities when she was a young girl growing up, she decided as a young adult that she was a nymphomaniac, and even rejecting the label of "sex addict."
But as volume 1 ended she is exclaiming that she no longer could feel anything, her erotic zone had become non-respondent. Her sex was empty. So in much of volume two she recounts how she went to various people to try to either revive the sensations, or to break her of her nymphomania.
It is all very dirty and violent, for no apparent good cinematic reason. I am mostly puzzled why most professional critics give the whole movie, volumes 1 and 2, favorable comments because I see it as just a self- indulgent exercise on the director's part, to test the boundaries, showing very graphic sex using porno industry body doubles, all to end up with a sad story with no redeeming qualities. It seems it was all set up to question if society is harder on a woman than on a man for being overtly promiscuous.
MAJOR SPOILER FOLLOWS: As volume 2 ends, after telling her story all night, she just asks if she can go to sleep in Seligman's apartment and get some rest. He assures her she won't be disturbed. But as she dozes off he enters the room with his pants off and his penis in his hand, he intends to rape her. The screen goes black and we hear a gunshot, even though she has had sex with hundreds or thousands of men, she kills Seligman.
Volume 1 set up the story, of a woman named Joe, telling her story to a man named Seligman. As she recounted finding her sexual spot when she was only two, and learning some self-erotic activities when she was a young girl growing up, she decided as a young adult that she was a nymphomaniac, and even rejecting the label of "sex addict."
But as volume 1 ended she is exclaiming that she no longer could feel anything, her erotic zone had become non-respondent. Her sex was empty. So in much of volume two she recounts how she went to various people to try to either revive the sensations, or to break her of her nymphomania.
It is all very dirty and violent, for no apparent good cinematic reason. I am mostly puzzled why most professional critics give the whole movie, volumes 1 and 2, favorable comments because I see it as just a self- indulgent exercise on the director's part, to test the boundaries, showing very graphic sex using porno industry body doubles, all to end up with a sad story with no redeeming qualities. It seems it was all set up to question if society is harder on a woman than on a man for being overtly promiscuous.
MAJOR SPOILER FOLLOWS: As volume 2 ends, after telling her story all night, she just asks if she can go to sleep in Seligman's apartment and get some rest. He assures her she won't be disturbed. But as she dozes off he enters the room with his pants off and his penis in his hand, he intends to rape her. The screen goes black and we hear a gunshot, even though she has had sex with hundreds or thousands of men, she kills Seligman.