Yes, yes, we’re getting to the round table reviews very soon. But first, let’s class the joint up a little…
S&M HUNTER
S&M Hunter is irresistibly quotable. Its main character spouts all kinds of pretentious nonsense, and even, true to his ecclesiastical garb, quotes the New Testament (while other utterances — “I see your heart. Your heart wants my ropes” — seem more secular in origin). What I enjoyed most about the film was how it hijacks the terse moral shorthand and glib certitude of evangelism for its own anarchic ends. During the movie’s talky prologue, the Hunter essentially preaches to the audience, explicitly laying out the story’s conflict and moral, after which we see both briskly played out, with the gum-snapping, leather-clad Bombers playing the transgressors whose wayward actions meet with exactly those consequences that the moral predetermines. In the end it all plays out like some Bizarro World version of a Chick tract, with those who have given in to evil, rather than being cast into the lake of fire, instead being bound up and helplessly racked with consecutive multiple orgasms.
#1 by El Santo on February 19, 2009 - 2:39 pm
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“a sex slave wearing a nun’s habit (and usually not much else)”
I think the word you’re looking for is not “habit,” but “wimple.” The wimple is the distinctive headdress, whereas the habit is the whole getup, which generally covers everything up to the jawline and down to the knuckles. Even a Wahabi cleric would have a hard time being scandalized by the thought of a woman wearing not much else but a habit.
#2 by Todd on February 19, 2009 - 4:05 pm
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Agh. And “wimple” is such a great word, too. Now I’ll have to find a context in which to use it properly. Thanks, El Santo.
Of course, it’s not surprising that I’d make that kind of mistake, given that watching a mostly naked, wimple-wearing nun in a Japanese softcore porn movie is the closest I’ve come to attending an actual church service in my adult life.
#3 by KeithA on February 19, 2009 - 4:07 pm
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