From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Sat Jun 01 2002 - 08:06:42 MDT
> .....(Maybe ya hadda be there.)
> Damien Broderick
'City of Women'(1980) is Federico Fellini's dream about women.
http://www.federicofellini.it/schedafilm.asp?idfilm=20
Mr. Snaporaz is dozing on a train when he begins a flirtation
with the woman across from him. She leaves the compartment;
he pursues. She leaves the train; he pursues. Eventually he
follows her to a hotel in the woods where a convention of ardent,
angry, late '70s feminists is underway. They condemn masculine
sounds and celebrate gentle, feminine sounds. They invent new names
for the vagina (tongue of light; smile of life; moon-violet).
They protest the very act of penetration and attempt to abolish
fellatio. The deeper he goes into the hotel, the angrier and more
anarchic their behavior. And when the charges are finally read
against Mr. Snaporaz, no man can claim himself entirely innocent:
"He has no ready answers... He never gives, nor lends, nor trusts...
He repeats himself. He wears socks in bed. He's guilty of being aloof,
self-indulgent. He pities himself... He can't commit himself to one
woman. He deceives himself by imagining an ideal woman... He believes
that women are mentally inferior. He considers them superior beings."
http://home.earthlink.net/~elundegaard/cityofwomen.htm
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