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| Shia LaBoeuf on his way to work. |
-a woman who has abnormally excessive and uncontrollable desire
In other words, it is defined as a person who really loves sex or who is always craving for sex. However, nymphomania is applied to women as satyriasis is applied to males. Individuals' sexual though interfere with their lives, relationships, hobbies, and the ability to work properly. It is debatable whether this sexual addiction is a factor of obsessive-compulsive behavior. Now, I do not to begin writing this review as a thesis in medical school for sexual behavior. I'm writing about Lars Von Trier's volumes of bizarre episodes relevant to the human condition of sexuality. I'm not a huge fan of Von Trier's work, even though I loved Melancholia, but this movie made me cringe and think and I think that's a compliment to Volume I.
The movie starts with a man (Stellan Skarsgård) going out for a walk to get some bait and on his way back home, he stumbles upon a bloodied and unconscious woman (Charlotte Gainsbourg). He insists on calling an ambulance, but the woman refuse him to do that, otherwise, she will leave. He takes her inside the house for a cup of tea and as she notices a fly on the fishhook up on the wall. The man responds that he does not fish much. The man shows her a fishing book he used to love as a kid and she realizes she knows where to start to tell him the whole story.
She begins with an anecdote where she discovered her "bait" when she was 2 years old and she loved her father (Christian Slater) very much, but she despised her mother, Katherine (Connie Nielsen) who was cold and distant as she plays Solitaire. And as time progresses, when she is older, a teenage Joe (Stacy Martin), who is also the woman who is narrating the story) befriends B (Sophie Kennedy Clark) who wears racy clothing eyeing all the men they pass by. Basically, B and Joe are in a competitive state how many men each of them can have sex with. After, they formally introduce to each other in the present day, the man's name is Seligman and the woman's name is already presented in the review. She notices rugelach, a dessert, on a table and is told that it is not feminine to eat with a fork. But Joe tells Seligman that she knew someone who did eat with a fork.
The next chapter begins with Jerome (Shia LaBeouf) as the chapter begins Joe having sex with lots of men and she and B form a club called "The Little Flock". It is formed to have horny women be ready for sex and also be rebellious. But, when Joe meets Jerome at a printing house where she recently gets a job at a secretarial position. It takes a moment for Jerome to recognize her since he is the first one that Joe lost virginity to. It is a chronicle of events that is relevant to each character that revolves around Joe's obsession with sex.
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| Uma Thurman as Mrs. H. |
Although the sex scenes are graphic and germain to the material, Von Trier presents the scenes as horrifying and tumultuous as we sometimes turn away and never want to see these characters again. But, we ask ourselves what is going to happen to these characters in Volume II or in the end of Volume I.
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Stace Martin are quite fantastic as the adult and teenage Joe, respectively. They gain immediate attention from us as we are quite interested from the beginning of the movie of why she is the state of vulnerability and sexual obsession. Skarsgård is fine, LaBeouf has some moments of brilliance, although, his British accent was weak. Slater has a small part as Joe's father, who is quite comfortable. Uma Thurman has some scene-stealing moments which trigger comedy and self-indulgent humor simultaneously. The performances are quite extraordinary, but Von Trier's visual styles of nonsense and brilliance interweave with each chapter like a kid playing with his toys. Nevertheless, this is an uncomfortable, but interesting picture.
My review of Volume II: http://joncaro24.blogspot.com/2014/04/nymphomaniac-vol-ii-2014-unrated-2-stars.html
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