There continues to be a trend of showing all, even on television where women are half dressed, acting as sexy as the industry will tolerate and worse. This trend is carrying over into film and our tolerance for the infringement on the natural processes of maturation is ever expanding.
STOP
It is difficult enough without the intervention of adult retrospective memories and voyeuristic strivings to come of age, to discover the world of sex, of being desired and wanted not for who you are but for what you promise to be.
Home economics may not be pushing girls to stay at home and strive to be good wives but the film industry is taking over by putting into the forefront of becoming, the need to deal with sexuality without benefit of a relationship to smooth the way into adulthood. Pornography for boys, interferes with their ability to relate to their age appropriate mates and pornography in film wreaking havoc on these poor girls who act the part without even knowing what it is all about.
Stop child pornography. Stop using children to educate, to entertain.
Let our children be children.
For the sake of future generations, desist from commodification of our children. Allow them to grow up without telling them what their sexuality is all about. and without making money from their natural maturation.
So says,
me.
Linda Zises
Friday, April 4, 2008
Water Lilies: young love in search of a relationship
Water Lilies
Celine Sciamma
Koch Lorber Films
Unrated for viewers: R for the actors.
Water Lilies is about three 15 (or younger) year old teenager girls, all of them just at about the same psychological stage of budding sexuality, who meet at the swimming pool during those long summer days when children are meant to fend for themselves and parents, adults cease to exist.
Water Lilies is a film for whom? Not for children, not for teenagers who would find it cold, calculating dispassionate tale about what they are supposed to feel, do and think once sexuality becomes a part of their everyday life.
I think this movie is for men, for those who want to look at what is considered a problem for young teenages: the loss of their virginity, finding their sexual identity.
Are all girls first homosexuals before becoming heterosexual as Celine Sciamma suggests?
This theme of young relationships goes far to present sexuality without benefit of human relations to sustain this new ingredient in a young girl’s life It is becoming so common it is almost trendy. Water Lilies seems to focus more on informing men about girls rather than in finding something to cherish, to love and identify with in the character’s presented plight. That is also true of Juno, where it wasn’t the relationship that was paramount but rather the result of going outside of the box, no pun intended, with the result of an unwanted pregnancy. For whom will the theme of a girl’s emerging sexuality have sufficient meaning and depth to ensure importance or will it deteriorate into just another semi pornographic moment?
Water Lilies does show tremendous talent and for a first effort it is outstanding. I hope the next film by this talented film maker will embrace a subject worth seeing, done with a delicate touch. and a wealth of human interaction without resorting to explicit sexuality recreated by underage children for the pleasure of their adult audience.
For a short (14 minutes) superb film on the same subject, I recommend MAN. But who watches short films? Maybe you.
Linda Zises
Celine Sciamma
Koch Lorber Films
Unrated for viewers: R for the actors.
Water Lilies is about three 15 (or younger) year old teenager girls, all of them just at about the same psychological stage of budding sexuality, who meet at the swimming pool during those long summer days when children are meant to fend for themselves and parents, adults cease to exist.
Water Lilies is a film for whom? Not for children, not for teenagers who would find it cold, calculating dispassionate tale about what they are supposed to feel, do and think once sexuality becomes a part of their everyday life.
I think this movie is for men, for those who want to look at what is considered a problem for young teenages: the loss of their virginity, finding their sexual identity.
Are all girls first homosexuals before becoming heterosexual as Celine Sciamma suggests?
This theme of young relationships goes far to present sexuality without benefit of human relations to sustain this new ingredient in a young girl’s life It is becoming so common it is almost trendy. Water Lilies seems to focus more on informing men about girls rather than in finding something to cherish, to love and identify with in the character’s presented plight. That is also true of Juno, where it wasn’t the relationship that was paramount but rather the result of going outside of the box, no pun intended, with the result of an unwanted pregnancy. For whom will the theme of a girl’s emerging sexuality have sufficient meaning and depth to ensure importance or will it deteriorate into just another semi pornographic moment?
Water Lilies does show tremendous talent and for a first effort it is outstanding. I hope the next film by this talented film maker will embrace a subject worth seeing, done with a delicate touch. and a wealth of human interaction without resorting to explicit sexuality recreated by underage children for the pleasure of their adult audience.
For a short (14 minutes) superb film on the same subject, I recommend MAN. But who watches short films? Maybe you.
Linda Zises
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