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Perpetates sterotypes despite aspirations
by Just Me (movies profile)
Apr 12, 2007
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2 people found this review helpful
The Pet staring Pierre Du Lat and Andrea Edmondson is not a modern story of O.
It is the story of a young American woman who is given a choice to become the human pet of a European man. She accepts the arrangement, is stripped naked, collared and branded and happily lives the existence of a full power exchange agreement where the submissive is reduced to the role of an animal. It is a charming depiction of freedom through submission. This all goes sour however when the immoral acquaintances of GG's master, who are involved in the actual trafficking of human slavery, some of which are sold merely for their organs, decide to sell her without prior permission from the master.
It was written seemingly from perspective of someone quite outside the lifestyle yet whom sought to portray it in as positive a light as they could. For the most part it fell short of this expectation. Some things were done extremely well. The cinematography's of the naked GG being led around the fabulous Santa Barbara house on her hands and knees was quite beautiful. Also the fact that she voluntarily choose the life of a human pet was made very clear. However outside the safety of the mansion the lifestyle was depicted quite differently. Instead of spending time with others in a consensual power exchange lifestyle GG's owner held company with only despicable actual human traffickers. It was quite clear that the producers of The Pet intended to show the stark differences between D/s lifestyle and forced slavery, but they fell short. Although all the members of GG's household were depicted as loving and understanding of their human pet, the overall interpretation of the D/s lifestyle was made to seem extreme and isolated to only sadists in the worst definition of the word. It seems the community is to be left waiting still for a film maker to truly capture what it means to a part of the lifestyle. We are still waiting to see our community depicted without the unneeded connection to true human slavery. This merely perpetuates the stereotypes and does not enrich our goal of being tolerated and maybe one day even understood by the vanilla community. |
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