I am an SM writer (I am not by the way, it is just the title ofa film....)

[Eija Margit Niskanen]

Gavin wrote:

>
> I was quite impressed the film, because it is both funny in an Itami-esque 
>way, and the material has interesting things to say about sex and gender in 
>Japan. The plot line hangs around the attempts of a second rate hack
novelist 
>to write a masterpeice of SM fiction. He  pays a rope master to tie up and 
>sleep with a young woman, and writes down the minutitiae of intecourse in 
>graphic detail as the "investigations" proceed. Although the language is as 
>pornographic as it could be, the visualy imagery is relatively tame, and 
>underlines the absurdity of the writers purple prose. The writers wife 
>objects to her husbands work, accusing him of being  a pervert (hentai). He 
>replies that the money he earns from writing pornography is the only  way 
>that he can get the momey to pay for her upper middle class life style. 
>However, she refuses to have sex with him until he gives up the job. I won't 
>give away much more of the plot, because I think it would spoil it, but most 
>of the film deals with the writers attempts to get his wife back into bed, 
>and along the way to find the reasons for his decline in sexual power.  
>Moreover rather than assuming that his wife isn't interested in physical
sex, 
>it becomes apparent that she is, but that her aggenda is very different from 
>her husband's. It is not that she doesn't have a pornographic imagination, 
>but just one at odds with her husbands reduction of sex to the barest 
>mechanical details. 

Also, I think that the wife turns the roles upside down: the novelist
thinks that he is the sadist (in regards to the girl they rope up), but in
the end it is the wife who torments the novelist by, I think, intentionally
letting him know about her new sex life, and by thus turning the novelist
into a masochist, who just has to record these sexual adventures. The
greatest sadistic deed happens in the end, when the wife refuses to read
the book that the novelist has written about her.

eija