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* BrainsAndBondage: We already know that she's a very smart person, and it's implied that this is why she use kinky fantasies to handle her insecurities.
* EntitledToHaveYou: Debated in the film, a debate played for horror: A particularly creepy woman is holding a little lecture about how a woman "must" be an empty canvas for men to project their desire on. Her niece's (slightly delayed) response is to start cutting herself - carving the word "love" into her own flesh and explaining that she meant to write "hate". Maybe she didn't know the difference anymore?
* FanDisservice: An acquaintance of Eve's trying a bit too hard to be {{Stripperiffic}} while holding a very creepy lecture about what it means to be a woman.
* HeteronormativeCrusader: Played for symbolism - Eve, a bisexual sadomasochist, gets attacked (twice!) by a very judgemental man. However, this man comes out of nowhere - in all likelihood he is not to be taken as a literal person, but rather as a manifestation of her anxiety.
* InternalizedCategorism: Eve struggles with this through the entire movie. As the page quote indicates, the whole thing is about the devastating effects of having grown up as a girl/woman, having been pushed into an destructive gender role. Not restricted to gender alone, it's also about trying to come to terms with one's power and sexuality.
* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: The main character's sister gets arrested for shoplifting. She can't pay the fine/bail, so she is kept in jail. Because of this, she risks missing getting her doctorate, tarnishing her academic career.
* EntitledToHaveYou: Debated in the film, a debate played for horror: A particularly creepy woman is holding a little lecture about how a woman "must" be an empty canvas for men to project their desire on. Her niece's (slightly delayed) response is to start cutting herself - carving the word "love" into her own flesh and explaining that she meant to write "hate". Maybe she didn't know the difference anymore?
* FanDisservice: An acquaintance of Eve's trying a bit too hard to be {{Stripperiffic}} while holding a very creepy lecture about what it means to be a woman.
* HeteronormativeCrusader: Played for symbolism - Eve, a bisexual sadomasochist, gets attacked (twice!) by a very judgemental man. However, this man comes out of nowhere - in all likelihood he is not to be taken as a literal person, but rather as a manifestation of her anxiety.
* InternalizedCategorism: Eve struggles with this through the entire movie. As the page quote indicates, the whole thing is about the devastating effects of having grown up as a girl/woman, having been pushed into an destructive gender role. Not restricted to gender alone, it's also about trying to come to terms with one's power and sexuality.
* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: The main character's sister gets arrested for shoplifting. She can't pay the fine/bail, so she is kept in jail. Because of this, she risks missing getting her doctorate, tarnishing her academic career.
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* BrainsAndBondage: We already know that she's Eve is a very smart person, person and it's implied {{implied}} that this is why she use uses kinky fantasies to handle her insecurities.
* EntitledToHaveYou: Debated in the film, a debate played for horror: A particularly creepy woman is holding a little lecture about how a woman "must" be an empty canvas for men to project their desire on. Her niece's (slightly delayed) response is to start cutting herself- -- carving the word "love" into her own flesh and explaining that she meant to write "hate". Maybe she didn't know the difference anymore?
* FanDisservice: An acquaintance ofEve's Eve is trying a bit too hard to be {{Stripperiffic}} while holding a very creepy lecture about what it means to be a woman.
* HeteronormativeCrusader: Played forsymbolism - symbolism. Eve, a bisexual sadomasochist, gets attacked (twice!) by a very judgemental man. However, this man comes out of nowhere - -- in all likelihood likelihood, he is not to be taken as a literal person, but rather as a manifestation of her anxiety.
* InternalizedCategorism: Eve struggles with thisthrough throughout the entire movie. As the page quote indicates, the whole thing is about the devastating effects of having grown up as a girl/woman, therefore having been pushed into an a destructive gender role. Not restricted to gender alone, it's also about trying to come to terms with one's power and sexuality.
* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: The main character's sister gets arrested for shoplifting. She can't pay the fine/bail, so she is kept in jail. Because of this, she risks missing getting her doctorate, thus tarnishing her academic career.
* EntitledToHaveYou: Debated in the film, a debate played for horror: A particularly creepy woman is holding a little lecture about how a woman "must" be an empty canvas for men to project their desire on. Her niece's (slightly delayed) response is to start cutting herself
* FanDisservice: An acquaintance of
* HeteronormativeCrusader: Played for
* InternalizedCategorism: Eve struggles with this
* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: The main character's sister gets arrested for shoplifting. She can't pay the fine/bail, so she is kept in jail. Because of this, she risks missing getting her doctorate, thus tarnishing her academic career.
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* TomatoInTheMirror: Played with, deconstructed, {{deconstructed}}, played for symbolism, and such. Not the kind of story where this kind of trope is played straight.straight.
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* ContemptibleCover: The cover of the video cassette was designed to make people believe it was was an "erotic thriller" bordered on pure porno. Surely many who rented it under that premise got very disappointed.
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Dewicking per TRS decision.
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* BiTheWay: Or maybe that doctor she met was simply so cute that EvenTheGirlsWantHer.
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* HeteronormativeCrusader: Played for symbolism - Eve, a bisexual sadomasochist, gets attacked (twice!) by a very judgemental man. However, this man comes out of nowhere - in all likelyhood he is not to be taken as a literal person, but rather as a manifestation of her anxiety.
* InternalizedCategorism: Eve struggls with this through the entire movie. As the page quote indicates, the whole thing is about the devastating effects of having grown up as a girl/woman, having been pushed into an destructive gender role. Not restricted to gender alone, it's also about trying to come to terms with one's power and sexuality.
* InternalizedCategorism: Eve struggls with this through the entire movie. As the page quote indicates, the whole thing is about the devastating effects of having grown up as a girl/woman, having been pushed into an destructive gender role. Not restricted to gender alone, it's also about trying to come to terms with one's power and sexuality.
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* HeteronormativeCrusader: Played for symbolism - Eve, a bisexual sadomasochist, gets attacked (twice!) by a very judgemental man. However, this man comes out of nowhere - in all likelyhood likelihood he is not to be taken as a literal person, but rather as a manifestation of her anxiety.
* InternalizedCategorism: Evestruggls struggles with this through the entire movie. As the page quote indicates, the whole thing is about the devastating effects of having grown up as a girl/woman, having been pushed into an destructive gender role. Not restricted to gender alone, it's also about trying to come to terms with one's power and sexuality.
* InternalizedCategorism: Eve
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* TomatoInTheMirror: Played with, deconstructed, played for symbolism, and such. Not the kind of story where this kind of trope is played straight.straight.
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* GirlsNeedRoleModels: There is one teenage girl in the story, and her place in the plot seem to be to show how the adult women pass their insecurities and their self-hatred along to the next generation.
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* InternalizedCategorism: Eve struggle with this trough the entire movie. As the page quote indicates, the whole thing is about the devastating effects of having grown up as a girl/woman, having been pushed into an destructive gender role. Not restricted to gender alone, it's also about trying to come to terms with one's power and sexuality.
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* InternalizedCategorism: Eve struggle struggls with this trough through the entire movie. As the page quote indicates, the whole thing is about the devastating effects of having grown up as a girl/woman, having been pushed into an destructive gender role. Not restricted to gender alone, it's also about trying to come to terms with one's power and sexuality.
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* CompletelyMissingThePoint: This movie was marketed as an "erotic thriller". Meh. Being ''about'' sexuality doesn't make a movie erotic. And Thriller? [[SarcasmMode Sure!]] The movie does indeed feature a crime... [[BigNo Shoplifting]]!
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* ContemptibleCover: The cover of the video cassette was designed to make people believe it was was an "erotic thriller" it bordered on pure porno. Surely many who rented it under that premise got very disappointed.
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* ContemptibleCover: The cover of the video cassette was designed to make people believe it was was an "erotic thriller" so full of FetishFuel it bordered on pure porno. Surely many who rented it under that premise got very disappointed.
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->''For a woman to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her emotional and intellectual capacities, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration of the social conditions that demean and constrain her.''
->''Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.''
-->-- '''Louise J. Kaplan''', film's opening text.
Contrary to what one might expect from the title of this 1996 movie, ''Female Perversions'' is a slow-paced psychological drama about emotional insecurity and similar issues. The movie is prologued by the words of the page quote above, but very little of the story is about sexuality in a narrow sense of the word.
The main characters are two sisters at the edge of professional success. The attorney Eve has a shot at becoming a Judge, and her sister is about to get her [=PhD=].
All that stands in their way is patriarchal oppression, but not in the form of misogynist enemies trying to bring them down. No, the oppression comes from within, in the form of self-hatred and all the ways in which one can ruin one's own life. Or at least that's ''one'' way of looking at it: The story is complex and subtle, there are many ways in which it can be interpreted.
!!Has examples of:
* BiTheWay: Or maybe that doctor she met was simply so cute that EvenTheGirlsWantHer.
* BondageIsBad: Used as a symbol, not of Eve being a bad person but of her having a lot of baggage.
* BrainsAndBondage: We already know that she's a very smart person, and it's implied that this is why she use kinky fantasies to handle her insecurities.
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: This movie was marketed as an "erotic thriller". Meh. Being ''about'' sexuality doesn't make a movie erotic. And Thriller? [[SarcasmMode Sure!]] The movie does indeed feature a crime... [[BigNo Shoplifting]]!
* ContemptibleCover: The cover of the video cassette was designed to make people believe it was was an "erotic thriller" so full of FetishFuel it bordered on pure porno. Surely many who rented it under that premise got very disappointed.
* FanDisservice: An acquaintance of Eve's trying a bit too hard to be {{Stripperiffic}} while holding a very creepy lecture about what it means to be a woman.
* GirlsNeedRoleModels: There is one teenage girl in the story, and her place in the plot seem to be to show how the adult women pass their insecurities and their self-hatred along to the next generation.
* HeteronormativeCrusader: Played for symbolism - Eve, a bisexual sadomasochist, gets attacked (twice!) by a very judgemental man. However, this man comes out of nowhere - in all likelyhood he is not to be taken as a literal person, but rather as a manifestation of her anxiety.
* InternalizedCategorism: Eve struggle with this trough the entire movie. As the page quote indicates, the whole thing is about the devastating effects of having grown up as a girl/woman, having been pushed into an destructive gender role. Not restricted to gender alone, it's also about trying to come to terms with one's power and sexuality.
* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: The main character's sister gets arrested for shoplifting. She can't pay the fine/bail, so she is kept in jail. Because of this, she risks missing getting her doctorate, tarnishing her academic career.
* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: The teenage girl is portrayed as a quite natural counter-reaction to her desperately oversexualized aunt's creepiness.
* RuleOfSymbolism: The previously mentioned attacks, among other things.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Played with, deconstructed, played for symbolism, and such. Not the kind of story where this kind of trope is played straight.
[[caption-width-right:290:Eve, currently terrified of an ordinary bathroom mirror.]]
->''For a woman to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her emotional and intellectual capacities, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration of the social conditions that demean and constrain her.''
->''Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.''
-->-- '''Louise J. Kaplan''', film's opening text.
Contrary to what one might expect from the title of this 1996 movie, ''Female Perversions'' is a slow-paced psychological drama about emotional insecurity and similar issues. The movie is prologued by the words of the page quote above, but very little of the story is about sexuality in a narrow sense of the word.
The main characters are two sisters at the edge of professional success. The attorney Eve has a shot at becoming a Judge, and her sister is about to get her [=PhD=].
All that stands in their way is patriarchal oppression, but not in the form of misogynist enemies trying to bring them down. No, the oppression comes from within, in the form of self-hatred and all the ways in which one can ruin one's own life. Or at least that's ''one'' way of looking at it: The story is complex and subtle, there are many ways in which it can be interpreted.
!!Has examples of:
* BiTheWay: Or maybe that doctor she met was simply so cute that EvenTheGirlsWantHer.
* BondageIsBad: Used as a symbol, not of Eve being a bad person but of her having a lot of baggage.
* BrainsAndBondage: We already know that she's a very smart person, and it's implied that this is why she use kinky fantasies to handle her insecurities.
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: This movie was marketed as an "erotic thriller". Meh. Being ''about'' sexuality doesn't make a movie erotic. And Thriller? [[SarcasmMode Sure!]] The movie does indeed feature a crime... [[BigNo Shoplifting]]!
* ContemptibleCover: The cover of the video cassette was designed to make people believe it was was an "erotic thriller" so full of FetishFuel it bordered on pure porno. Surely many who rented it under that premise got very disappointed.
* FanDisservice: An acquaintance of Eve's trying a bit too hard to be {{Stripperiffic}} while holding a very creepy lecture about what it means to be a woman.
* GirlsNeedRoleModels: There is one teenage girl in the story, and her place in the plot seem to be to show how the adult women pass their insecurities and their self-hatred along to the next generation.
* HeteronormativeCrusader: Played for symbolism - Eve, a bisexual sadomasochist, gets attacked (twice!) by a very judgemental man. However, this man comes out of nowhere - in all likelyhood he is not to be taken as a literal person, but rather as a manifestation of her anxiety.
* InternalizedCategorism: Eve struggle with this trough the entire movie. As the page quote indicates, the whole thing is about the devastating effects of having grown up as a girl/woman, having been pushed into an destructive gender role. Not restricted to gender alone, it's also about trying to come to terms with one's power and sexuality.
* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: The main character's sister gets arrested for shoplifting. She can't pay the fine/bail, so she is kept in jail. Because of this, she risks missing getting her doctorate, tarnishing her academic career.
* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: The teenage girl is portrayed as a quite natural counter-reaction to her desperately oversexualized aunt's creepiness.
* RuleOfSymbolism: The previously mentioned attacks, among other things.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Played with, deconstructed, played for symbolism, and such. Not the kind of story where this kind of trope is played straight.
