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Hercuckslave -> RE: Movie - The Pet (12/3/2006 11:44:11 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Dman2001
In The Pet I did see a mainstream film that DID NOT “portray D/s folks evil, sick or twisted “ –that in my opinion has to be in the eye of an individual moviegoer because it certainly was not in the movie.
actually, it was not in the eye of this individual movie goer, but in the movie itself. don't remember the names of the characters, but the bald man who first took the asian pet girl....he interacts with her in a loving, D/s, Master/pet way (fairly representative of many consensual D/s relationships)...only to turn around and sell her off for her body parts later in the movie. This is shown to be his regular pattern. In mixing a consensual, seemingly compassionate D/s interaction with pure trafficing in human flesh, the film is indeed showing D/s folks as evil. Lets take a look at this as if it were a REAL WORLD situation. If the man was a trafficer in human flesh and taking these people merely to sell them for organ transplants, there would be NO LOVING D/S INTERACTION. he would simply kidnap them, cage them, and keep them like that until he found a buyer for them. By mixing the two i felt the movie was showing that as the end result of the power exchange. Even the rich man who another poster pointed out was kind and caring to his pet...he was totally involved in the human trafficing and organ donor ring.....totally a part of it and totally profiting from it. it just so happened that he found a special connection with this particular pet. I don't find him to be an innocent character whatsoever. He was part of the evil ring. If the film maker wished to show consensual slavery as opposed to non consensual, it would have been better accomplished by showing two DIFFERENT sets of people in a parralel way. One form of slavery to be consensual, loving, committed...the other to be non consensual, cruel, detached, and inhuman.
I did not expect this to be a D/s movie and tried to view it with impartial eyes. The fact for me is that it is yet another main stream media piece that shows D/s people in an evil light.
True it is just these particular D/s people...but think for a moment.....if 99% of the movies that had a jewish character showed him as a greedy, money grubbing, opportunistic bastard, there would also be serious talk about the media showing jews in an unfair and stereotypical light.
that's how i felt about this piece. "Look at what those kinky SM D/s folks REALLY do.
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