Conspirators of pleasure, a dark comedy/ silent movie released in the 1996. This movie told individual stories of six people of their personal obsessions and fantasies, and how it interlaced with each other.
The movie is intriguingly showing human desire and fantasy, to what extent a person can do to fulfill their imagination (perhaps their intrusive thoughts?) People can be really creative and avant garde in their head. What if human do everything that crosses their mind. In this movie, human desires became a force of creativity. Like how someone in the movie use a roller pin, fur, and nails to inflict physical sensations. Or the guy who invent a whole mechanical machinery to serve him pleasure. Should there were not desires, perhaps they won't make these things.
Human are not only intelligent being, but also a spiritual being. They are looking for connection with the spiritual realm thus the imagery of rituals, symbolic objects like blood and candles. This is also the part where the movie was cleverly using reappearing objects like fur, wardrobe, nails, feathers, umbrella. And so on. I interpret that the movie used these objects as a symbolic meaning of how these obsession and energy could be found and delivered through everything and everywhere in daily life.
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