Unpleasant experience viewing this film

I wish people could see how culture plays a huge role in how people act; what is acceptable and unacceptable, et cetera. Some people, I guess, are just too narrow-minded.

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well said, but to be a bit more precise, culture plays a huge role in the way people REact [ie to actions of others eg in a movie] BUT the way people [and animals] act has not changed since Adam and Eve, and in fact Jules and Jim is simply about "Eve Syndrome".

I hope your classmates allowed you to hear the main comment by the narrator "the Queen bee was not happy, so Jim had to leave the hive".

movie is not about sex itself but the POWER of sex, and how, wielded indiscriminately by certain women, can cause total disaster.

more to come in explanation so stay posted
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the local disaster of movie was bad enough but the REAL disaster was that Germaine Greer who was to lead the small f feminists into a war against men in 1970 styled her hatred ON Catherine - here it is from my own book:
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3.1.4. It is with great apology that I have to reveal that the particular woman that instigated this catastrophic revenge was actually an Australian, Germaine Greer, and her channel was via her book The Female Eunuch. Here is what Wiki has to tell:

The Female Eunuch hit the bookstands in London in October 1970. By March 1971, it had nearly sold out its second printing and had been translated into 11 languages.

The main thesis of The Female Eunuch is that the "traditional" suburban, consumerist, nuclear family represses women sexually, and that this devitalizes them, rendering them eunuchs. It is a "fitful, passionate, scattered text, not cohesive enough to qualify as a manifesto," writes Laura Miller. "It's all over the place, impulsive, and fatally naive -- which is to say it is the quintessential product of its time."

3.1.5. Please note the sarcastic but true note of the final sentence, which says such a stance was “fatally naïve” (and should have been aborted before getting read) but in fact was just what J Doe wanted – or rather what Mrs G Doe (soon to become Ms G Doe) thought she wanted, but had to “repent at leisure” once her biological timeclock ran out and she was as alone as when an aged Greer finally saw herself in the mirror in Big Brother, didn’t like it, and put her bat under her arm and went home to lick her wounds, taking up on her new folly of pedophilia via her new book The Beautiful Boy.

3.1.6. And speaking of abortion, all mention of her plan to abort all males before birth and set up a sperm bank have been surgically removed by (Ms) HAL from Wiki etc, which is to say once the movement reached fever pitch and all males waved the White Flag, there was a certain amount of “I never said that” from HAL. Indeed while the song (see below) said “if I have to, I can do anything”, a quieter reflection on the situation over victory drinks said why not keep the men and have then do all the leg work for us, and it was that backdown that gave birth to the SNAG model (see below), ie as long as bloke reformed to a new vision of “sensitive” (meaning working his guts out at work and home), then he would be spared the extinction of his race. Thus spake Zarathustra and the rest is history.

3.1.7. So to return to and de-launder “Pussy Power”, Germaine had already set out the means in 1969 in her learned Article “Lady, Love Your *beep* Now this was not about downward gazing in loving awe but what women have know (and sometimes used) since the Garden of Eden (and I will return to Eve), ie that there is no other power in this world to match Pussy Power. It’s just that Germaine did it with more fury than anyone else.

3.1.8. The scorn that bore the fury was that at university, the young Germaine was considered a tad “queer” (though not in the homosexual meaning, now pronked to “gay”) by way of her strange looks and sexual preferences (see below). The boys therefore nicknamed her “Genetically Queer”, which was quite clever when you think about it. Worse still scorn wise, it is said that the boys made a deal to never jump her bones unless she put a plain brown paper bag over her head.

3.1.9. But even stranger for the young Ms Greer was her fascination with the “reverse” ménage à trois concept, as told by Ms Greer 46 years later:

“When François Truffaut's Jules et Jim was released in 1962, it was an instant hit with girls like me, francophile, penniless and non-monogamous. In those days, when contraception was available if you were sufficiently guileful, there were a fair few sex adventuresses about, though nowhere near as many as there are now. Enough of us took Jeanne Moreau's Catherine as a role model to establish a fashion for heavy black eye-liner, pale lips, sloppy jumpers and flappy skirts. Some even went so far as to try the Jackie Coogan cap worn by Catherine when she is masquerading as Thomas. We could all whistle "Le Tourbillon de la Vie". Catherine seemed a woman after our own hearts, who followed her desires rather than the rules.”

3.1.10. By reverse ménage à trois, I am saying that the “normal” ménage à trois was the “Two Ladies” one as sung in Cabaret (1972). There is nothing “genetically wrong” or “sexist” with the Jules et Jim one, or that the young Germaine should not prance around like a “McMansions” hotch-potch of an Australian university student on frogs legs. What was wrong was that she could not find a Jules et Jim (either singularly or the combination), and when you think about it, 2 blokes having sex with Germaine with a bag over her head could well be construed as rape, so it never happened, so she just felt more and more scorned, and her scathing remarks about Steve Irwin after his death are testimony to the longevity of her resultant fury.

3.1.11. Out of all that came the Nietzsche style Super Feminist Greer and her Bible The Female Eunuch and the rest is history. We will see the sad result via the destruction of the family unit as we knew it in a later Age as we examine American Beauty.











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