Movie Review: Repulsion

      Just finished watching Roman Polanski's Repulsion with Catherine Denueve about the quiet madness of a young woman. It primarily focused on her mixed attraction and repulsion of sexuality, and her eventual violent outbursts because of this.

      Even if it was obviously a man's take on this, I liked the subtlety with which it was done. And I only say it was from a man's point of view because the sense of sexual arousal was limited to the men, whereas her arousal only came through violence.
      Make no bones about it though, it was a very disturbing and frightening portrayal of feminine madness, sexuality, power, and her ability to take violent action. Unlike movie's now days it was done in a very subtle and somewhat artistic fashion, so that you went on this journey with her and felt a little unsure at times of what was actually going on - much as she was in the film.

      The only disappointing thing for me was that as a woman I wanted her to not only gain her power through violence but through the sexual side as well - we women can also have fantasies mingling the traditional masculine energies of sex and violence. He let her embrace only violent action and never sexual. Whereas I, watching it, wanted her to engage in the madness of both - something a woman would do: From a frightening male dominated repulsion to a pulverized mad bliss...