Eli as a Metaphor for Female Genitalia?
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Eli as a Metaphor for Female Genitalia?
So, every now and then I scope out You Tube for reviews of LTROI. Did so today and came across this one. The reviewer suggests at 4:35 that the film, and Eli in particular, represents a girl's anxieties about going through puberty without being able to talk with anyone about the experience. He even goes so far as to say that her bloody, foul, stinky nature means that she can be likened to a vagina (7:34), an image that many young women develop about themselves. Whew! Say what??
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Re: Eli as a Metaphor for Female Genitalia?
Yes, best to stick with "Scandinavia" rather than Norway. (He does acknowledge ignorance in geographical matters).
I'll say that even though he overplays the genitalia hand in his review (btw not the first time I've seen female puberty brought up in reference to Eli), I think he is on the right track, especially in his reference to bad parenting. I feel that if there are sexual inferences in the film, they are part of something bigger, which perhaps is intimacy. In this film intimacy comes across as something painful and scary, especially when there is no guidance or frame of reference from the world of adults.
I'll say that even though he overplays the genitalia hand in his review (btw not the first time I've seen female puberty brought up in reference to Eli), I think he is on the right track, especially in his reference to bad parenting. I feel that if there are sexual inferences in the film, they are part of something bigger, which perhaps is intimacy. In this film intimacy comes across as something painful and scary, especially when there is no guidance or frame of reference from the world of adults.
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Re: Eli as a Metaphor for Female Genitalia?
My reaction after watching this video.
I agree with gattoparde way too much with the whole female puberty thing. Sometimes people can view the same thing in a different light.
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I listened to the whole thing, wooah. Very very interesting. I keep seeing the shower scene from the first Carrie movie before me. Where she gets her period in publish shower and goes completely nuts. Interesting. It is always fun to hear a point of view completely isolated from the book or anything else. And it is a very interesting comperason. Even though the vagina part is a bit off, but possible, the rest is just precious. About the parents, about the kids only having each other and how bad that is cause there should have been more. Prety darn good if I must say so.
I must bring up the american steriotype of them being obsessed with sex, and comparing Eli to a menstrating vagina. I have never heard anyone in norway thinking that way about Eli, ever. "Only in america" maybe.. For once..
I must bring up the american steriotype of them being obsessed with sex, and comparing Eli to a menstrating vagina. I have never heard anyone in norway thinking that way about Eli, ever. "Only in america" maybe.. For once..
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Re: Eli as a Metaphor for Female Genitalia?
Just like the rest of the planet.intrige wrote:I must bring up the american steriotype of them being obsessed with sex,
I'm pretty sure nobody else has either, in any country, here - there - anywhere. I think it is his own unique point of view. People can sexualize anything.intrige wrote: and comparing Eli to a menstrating vagina. I have never heard anyone in norway thinking that way about Eli, ever.
Veni, Vidi, volo in domum redire.
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"God is beautiful, you are beautiful, I am beautiful." Short version of the Pater Noster. Not a religious post, just a thought to get your heads back to thinking of human beings in a more holistic way. Is that okay with everyone? Sheesh.
“For drama to deepen, we must see the loneliness of the monster and the cunning of the innocent.”
Re: Eli as a Metaphor for Female Genitalia?
Sounds good to me.dongregg wrote:"God is beautiful, you are beautiful, I am beautiful." Short version of the Pater Noster. Not a religious post, just a thought to get your heads back to thinking of human beings in a more holistic way. Is that okay with everyone? Sheesh.
Veni, Vidi, volo in domum redire.
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I not think this was the intention of JAL about Eli. but this is a interesting view
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Very interesting review, though I mostly disagree with it. It's spot-on about the adults though - Avila is the only adult we see even trying, though he fails. Everyone else is just going through the motions (Oskar's mother) or can't manage even that. Interesting way of looking at Virginia turning. I'll write some more when I have more time.
Bli mig lite.
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It takes a certain amount of bravery of confidence or (more likely) foolishness, as a male, to go off ruminating (especially out loud or in any social media format) about the psychology of girls during puberty. IMHO.
Yet, lots of good points. Fun to hear of others arriving in the world of LTROI and talking or writing about it.
Yet, lots of good points. Fun to hear of others arriving in the world of LTROI and talking or writing about it.