Sweet Whip (2013) (original) (raw)

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When Naoko was a freshman in high school she was kidnapped and imprisoned by a man who lived next door. For one month, she went through hell. Finally, she killed the man and escaped. Now as an adult, Naoko is a doctor specializing in infertility treatment, but she also has another side.

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perhaps he will be the one..who helps me to remember that strange taste..

i think the hard time i had with this film is the too accurate portrayal of trauma and violence mixed with sprinkles of affection..or you know 'love'. the hours of agony that felt like years long gone..time that never truly belonged to you..stolen by someone else..

this is not the taste.

to wake up every day not knowing if it will be the last time you wake up..from being continuously assaulted and scratching for the freedom to merely exist without fear. to accepting the abuse as a term of endearment..to shamefully yearn for the violence..desperate to feel something..anything for that taste. unfortunately no one can tell you how to heal. hell, we're lucky if we make it out alive..and we will just continue to tend to the chasm, that lies in what we once were.

the sweet taste she had once known..was filling her mouth again..

I just watched the 2 ½ hours long director’s cut of this movie without subtitles. Afterwards, I rewatched several scenes on my notebook where the subs for some inexplicable reason worked. So while I did not understand every little detail of dialogue, I think I can safely say, I got the gist of the story.

And after sitting here for a while thinking about the experience (and make no mistake, watching this movie was an experience), how I feel about the movie and what to write about it, I can hear one sentence repeating itself over and over again in my head like a broken record: “That shit, was fucked up.”

I’m not kidding around here people. This movie is…

if i meet him in hell, i’ll torture him to DEATH

it’s taken me quite some time to gather my thoughts on this film… even still, i’m not sure how to put my thoughts and feelings into words to fully capture the scope of my experience while watching this..

sweet whip is a deeply unsettling, nihilistic journey into the darkest corners of human trauma and sexual violence. it’s anything but titillating… it’s grim; it’s a relentless portrayal of a young girl’s abuse and psychological descent- where sex becomes entangled with pain, suffering, powerlessness, and numbness. there is a complete lack of retribution and moral balance… no catharsis, no justice, no real escape…

instead, we watch adult naoko process her trauma the…

they never teach girls what to do with that which follows violation, only how to tie ribbons over the bruises and to carry the wound like a keepsake pressed to the heart. there is a mirror she cannot look away from, though when she looks into it she sees eyes that belong to someone else, and a body she returns to like a stranger’s bed. pain becomes a second language and she speaks it fluently, and when she disappears into herself for the final time, it almost feels like mercy.

sweet whip is not for the faint of heart, but those who have lived within their own bereavement may find in her a pain all too familiar that they have long since grown accustomed to. bitter upon her tongue, she drinks the sweet taste of a poison she’ll never forget.

“the sweet taste that she had once known, was filling her mouth once again.”

This isn't about nice cars at all.

-Recommended by 4kaworu -

"Today's play will be my last, I kill you the my self"

Past trauma will always haunt us. Nao body remembers what her mind tries to fold away. Pain shaped her, and the film Very deep and painful I hate rape . Pain shapes itself, and the film simply stares at her life the same way she stares at her own reflection.

"I'll kill you, then I'll jump to my death,"

I keep thinking about how she treats pain like a compass fr. Not desire. Not pleasure. A compass. Something bitter she learned too early, something that stayed because the world offered her no other vocabulary for closeness. It reminds me of Nietzsche about scars being…

“Don’t forget. You mustn’t forget.”

This was an incredibly unsettling watch. The extreme and brutal nature of the film feels unpalatable throughout the nearly 2.5 hr runtime, yet is essential to the way the story unfolds. The nonlinear structure constantly alternates between the pain, torment, and abuse Naoko perseveres ever since her kidnapping as a teen. You feel connected to her numbness at every single moment. It’s a vicious cycle of pain and pleasure. Her trauma constantly lingering, controlling every single thought and action.

”O cliente está se referindo à Síndrome de Estocolmo. No entanto, ela não se aplica a mim. Fujita me impôs a sua vontade, fez o que quis comigo nos seus próprios termos e destruiu meu vínculo com a minha família. Só isso.”

Dança lenta com uma vítima em um crucifixo perverso, apagada e chicoteada até aquelas marcas e feridas gravarem sua pele como um brasão e lembrete de um período que só iria piorar mais e mais, e mesmo que passe, não deixará de lembrar-te daquele gostinho oculto, perdido e recém descoberto. O suspiro ofegante e o cheiro de urina enquanto bate na porta da casa da dona morte vira uma almagomação de curiosidades passadas e a dolorosa verdade assim…

First off, don't watch this if you haven't already stepped over the precipice into extremely violent, sexually abusive films. Really, just move on. If you are already falling, read ahead.

Tough review for me. Some good elements to the story line. Damage from violent sexual trauma caused first by the perpetrator and then by those who should offer support. How trauma can become twisted, buried inside until it explodes. Plus there is a visual appeal to the cinematic violence, beyond the excessive amount of lashing leather against sensitive body parts.

But wow, this one is intense. Very sexually violent. The excessive nudity and violence is clearly the business of mi$ogyny in film. Though the "revenge" had some catharsis, it is not enough to balance out the assault self-inflicted on the viewer.

In the end i liked it, but enrolled in a zoom exorcism immediately after watching.

Hello fellow utterly deranged people - I'm here to advocate for yet another film I should probably be on a list for even wanting to watch.

Possibly Takashi Ishii's greatest work. I can count on one hand the amount of "disturbing" movies that have actually disturbed me, but this had me seriously considering turning it off several times. Calling it 2.5 hours of torment is not exaggerating.

Surprisingly psychological in nature with Naoko narrating most of the film and several dreamy sequences where she "connects" with her past self. It's difficult to get into the symbolism without spoiling one of the most unique and cathartic endings I've ever seen, so I won't do that, but there's a lot to come…

I want to be kissed on the lips by the flick of the whip ⛓️‍💥

Unlike A Night in Nude, this is actually superrrrrr sleazy and depraved... and unfortunately pretty terrible too. Takashi Ishii dropped the ball with this absolute slog of a film, subjecting the audience to 2 and a half hours of empty misery. The sepia-tone brutality of New French Extremity saddling up with the grim perversity of a Pink flick, yet overlong and borderline unwatchable. Nothing to chew on between the wall-to-wall uggggggghhhhhh of it all. Damn dude.

Naoko is the star of this royal bummer, a woman who was kidnapped, tortured and raped for a whole month when she was 17. She managed to kill her psychotic captor and escape (hooray!) but was sadly rejected by her parents. She's now 32…