Sunday, January 22, 2006

The Loss of Sexual Innocence

The movie, The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999), features vignettes of the director Mike Figgis' sexual awakening over a lifetime with an intriguing depiction of the Adam and Eve mythology.


The Garden of Eden, a tonalist-surrealist rendering.


Self-aware African Adam suggesting the evolutionary concept of an African human origin rather then a biblical concept.


Caucasin Eve who fails to make eye contact with the viewer suggesting a lack of awareness (of God) and troubling racial purity connotations.


Adam and Eve are created seperate of each other contradicting the myth. They then explore their Eden.


And their humanity.


Eve discovers the fig tree and the snake due to natural needs to perserve self not in contempt of God's commandment.


Both Adam and Eve become sick from the fruit of the fig tree, Adam looks upon God either for mercy or out of contempt.


Eve inititiates the first sexual act after waking up from the sickness caused by eating the fruit. Another act of self-preservation or consciousness of sin?


Christianity's enforcers expel Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden rather then voluntary abandonment.

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