psychoanalysis
i'd like to discuss this movie from the psychoanalitical point of view.
what do you people think?
Well, this movie had 'sex' written all over it: The dialogue, the way the women wooed the men for their own purposes, the sexual frustration of The Old Man (who wanted the teen girl, Linda)...and so forth. Especially certain camera angles that were focused on the crotches/butts of the women, or a close-up of Billie as she sucks on the Cutty Sark...
As was brought up in a user review, the men are the 'victims.' Varla, Rosie, and Billie are 'superhuman' women; Varla especially, and are built as such. Varla likes to bully men she sees as weak...and if she happens to kill them, oh well.
Interestingly, Linda, while beautiful to look at, is not so 'built' as the other three women. She is petite, she cries, she gets scared. While she has some stereotypical female attributes, she is the one who saves Kirk from Varla towards the end.
Sidenote: Billie and Rosie don't seem to be as 'deadly' or sociopathic as Varla; they seem to follow her because she intimidates them. Or, at least in Rosie's case, she was in love with Varla.
"Can I touch your hair?"-Meiying (Wenwen Han) The Karate Kid (2010)
I'd like to know a little about Varla's past.
What made her like this? There HAD to of been abuse.
I would not credit abuse as something that made Varla into the person she is. I think she just enjoys being the 'bully' and being the one in charge.
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Well there was abuse in Tura Satana's past (she learnt martial arts and started a female gang after being gang raped) though the fictional character she played is pretty two dimensional despite being the lead.
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