I have watched this
movie Nymphomaniac series lately and I couldn't resist writing up my thoughts
on it, especially the end note.
In short, the movie is
about nymphomaniac women, according to Google: the person with high sexual
desire. The story starts with a wounded women on street laying unconscious and
she was found by a man (around 60's) later took her to his home and comforts
her with a warm tea and she starts narrating his life experiences as a
nymphomaniac to him.
She is a normal woman
like everyone else with good father, mom, but only difference is that she has
huge urge or desire to have sex. She meets up with lot of people in order to
satisfy her. After doing it a lot, a lot ,when she was around 30,
all of a sudden she couldn’t feel anything. Nothing will satisfy her. To be
precise, nothing makes her to orgasm.
After a while she will
get married to a guy (who initially took her V) and got a kid as well. She
still tries to get her feelings/responsiveness towards sex back like earlier
with every possible way but couldn’t succeed. Due to her situations, both
husband and kid will abandon her so she starts living alone.
Later she finds a job
which keeps her busy all the time. 15 yrs passed and all of a sudden she came across
her ex husband and tries to shoot him.(coz he is wooing with her junior),but it
got missed and the pissed of husband beats her up badly and leaves her on the
street.
During the 4:30 hrs of
story narration, this old man and she came across various aspects of her life
such as feminism, abortion, marriage, desire, asexuality, religion, love,
bondage sex, anger, machoism. This man considers himself as asexual and
promises her to give his opinions based on facts and situations without
partiality or empathy.
He carefully listens to
every detail and gave his opinions on her acts some being supportive others
against. When she finishes her story he states that whatever the sin/action she
took is because of her own situations and priorities. He assures her that there
was nothing wrong in her actions. She trusted him at last and relieved herself
from all her actions and promises him that from now on, she will stand up
against all odds and wanted to have a peaceful life and tells him that she
found a friend after 40 yrs.
This was the climax
scene. After watching 4:30 hrs of acts of nymphomaniac, I finally found myself
satisfied that she will lead a peaceful life from now. All is well. Happy
Ending.........
But no, movie ends with
a last scene where this old man tries to rape her and she shoots him with a gun
and she runs away from his house..
Dude, seriously.. After
all her stories that is what you thought?
He stated in a scene
that he is asexual but how come he behaves like that? We cannot simply judge
that all men are a$$holes. That is not fair, but it seems to be fair when Lars
Von Trier abruptly ended with that note.
