Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Fetish (1996)

I was both amazed and impressed that this film exists, as well as Pandora's Box.  Any place that gives people an chance to do something that they enjoy, that doesn't is positive in my mind.  It's kind of like that news reporter quitting her job because of her support of marijuana.  It seems that marijuana should be legal as marijuana users are much less destructive than alcohol users and it's a huge waste of judicial resources to attempt to prosecute those people, but at the same time no one should be dumb enough to actually use the stuff.

While the concept is good, this film does little to dispell the ideas that these fetishes and the people who have them are weird.  When the clients are asked to explain the reasons for their fetishes, most of them come up empty.  It's not really necessary for them to justify having these fetishes, but it would help us to understand them.  Only the people toward the end of the film clearly explain their reasoning for going to this club.  One man explains how her gets immense statifaction out fufilling his fantasy and clans to have an inner peace.  The other man appears to attend the club.  One other odd point is the interview is a bit too gungho to get on to his next question, often beginning to ask before the interviewee has completed their answer for the previous question.

All in all, it would seem that this club lacks in a way as all of their fantasies appear to be sexual in nature, but of course law restricts them from getting any sexual satisfaction from living out their fantasies.  It's a win-win situation for the women who work their as they are able to command high fees for their action, but do not have to get their hands (or more specifically other parts of their bodies) dirty.

The other oddity about these fetishes is it's hard to see the appeal in them.  After watching what they do, you don't get the sense that it is something fun or something you would like to try.

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