The Darkness of Pleasure is the enigma which breaks the confines of a lot many of us – be it in a sexual way or otherwise. Though being an oxymoron, we use the darkness involved with pleasure in more of a sexual-addictive-sadistic manner than anything else.
Moebius (2013)
A story of incest, adultery and involving scenes of castration, Moebius is spot on for a disturbing genre of revenge and sorrow combined, with an Asian flavour to it. A mother who is rather troubled by her husband’s affair is headed to castrate him, only to castrate her son instead and ends up eating his phallus. The ridiculous events that follow, involving the father looking for increasing his son’s libido without the organ, while the wife-mother roams the streets, Moebius will keep you wondering the reason why it was made.
Fifty Shades of Grey series (2015/2017)
A movie that neatly portrays the “grey” shades of one Mr Christian Grey, who, though being a billionaire, doesn’t carry the legacy and ingenuity of the likes of Tony Stark, except for one thing. Though it’s difficult to ponder over the tools and techniques he uses or the disturbing apathetic nature he has towards objectifying women, regardless, his methods are outrageous and upsetting at several times.
Anastasia Steele confronts her inner desires for sex and her attraction towards the dominance of Mr Grey before she finds herself lost between love, lust and submission. If not for Mr Grey’s billionaire status, there’s a very thin invisible line between ’50 Shades of Grey’ and torture porn.
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Hostel Series (2005/2007/2011)
Not for the faint of heart and guts, ‘Hostel’ is filled with severed body parts in almost every frame. Involving a demented game of torture and horrendously filmed gore, Hostel will startle you at some places whereas otherwise, it could make your guts turn upside down. Regardless, the performances are fantastic and Hostel I/II are quite fulfilling to their promises of the desperation and the delectation involved therein.
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Lolita (1997)
A middle-aged professor and a paedophile, Humbert, finds it difficult to let go of his fetish towards young girls, because he lost someone dear to him, while he was young. He marries a teenage girl’s mother, in order to be close to the girl. He nicknames her “Lolita” in his memoirs and they both commence on an endless journey comprising a weird stepfather -daughter relationship, bordering with incest and muffled with lies. All to the means of losing her in the end.
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I & II (2013)
Joe, a chronic nymphomaniac narrates her story of sexual encounters, going from pole to post, meeting and satiating herself with a countless number of men. The very fact that she’s never too content with her inner desires and her inability to withhold herself from her urges makes her severely dependent and misogynistic.
The Vol. II continues with Joe’s narrative, where Joe describing her experiences with Jerôme, who now lives with the young Joe. Joe seems losing her sexuality and the pleasure involved therein, yet she continues taking new avenues like rehabilitation by inflicting damage (compared with crucifixion), insertion and performing sadistic mutilation on her own.
As disturbing as it may seem, both the movies deliver raw forms of sadomasochism, self-inflicted abortions, hallucinations, objectification and torturous form of sex – everything to incite pleasure and pain. ‘Nymphomaniac’ shows the sorrows of a nymph, something that has to be fulfilled by copious amounts of hedonism.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
One of the weirdly relevant movies in this list, ‘Perfume’ is the story of a man with an odd superpower of enhanced olfactory senses. Born and brought up in neglect, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille could recognise and remember the smell of almost anything – from leaves to wood, everyday things, animals and also, humans. In his quest to create and capture all the thirteen possible essences, he murders and enfleurages women to extract their scents. A movie for the tolerant few, ‘Perfume’ is uncannily disturbing with its cruel ways of extraction and has a scene depicting non-sexual mass debauchery, probably the only one of its kind in mainstream cinema.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Perhaps there can’t be a more sickening and disturbing movie on misanthropy than ‘Salò’, which even surpasses the greatest extreme pornographic acts of sodomy, coprophagia and orgies combined. While flaying, leashing, anal intercourses, fondling, victimisation and objectification of men and women is ubiquitous in the movie, what is extremely disturbing is the questionable sanity of the filmmakers or the conjurers of ‘Salò’. How could a rational person even think of this? Nevertheless, watching a group of nine young men and women sodomised, mutilated, forced-fed with faeces, humiliated, tortured and killed is next to impossible. So don’t, and thank me later.
Secretary (2002)
‘Secretary’ aggravates the common notion of a ubiquitous boss-secretary relationship manifolds. Incidentally, the protagonist who is named Mr Grey and is a lawyer by profession gives in to Lee’s sadomasochism. On the other hand, Lee starts falling for Mr Grey, which has never been her desire. Replete with sexual acts of dominance, self-infliction and denial, ‘Secretary’ is the story of a mentally destitute secretary who steadily comes to know of her submissive frailties from a person of her opposing nature. A decent balancing attempt, I’d say.
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