The head of a philanthropic fraternal organization is actually a misogynistic sadist who serially tortures beautiful, powerful, liberated women, that would never give him the time of day...if given the choice.
He fears a future where science will render men obsolete, and takes it out on women that refuse to submit to his whims.
After breaking the women down mentally...he forces them to "make love" to a sex doll fashioned in his own image.
All of this is part of a regimen designed to mold these once liberated women into willfully masochistic slaves.
Though, they do so only as a survival mechanism, out of fear they will be murdered by this sick and twisted psychopath.
In order to survive, they must prolong the torture.
This victim, however, tries to infiltrate his psychology in order to cure him.
Or so she claims, at least.
If she can make it come down to a battle of wits...she believes she will win.
She shows no fear, for she does not fear death, as a reincarnationist.
And, slowly, she manages to turn the tables...and seize the role of the dominant.
She plays him...at his own game...by pretending to be into it.
He simply can't handle that.
But he can't get enough of it either.
He needs to break her...but she refuses to break.
She becomes his greatest challenge.
At one point, she makes it look like she overdoses on pills, in order to escape the situation...so he is forced to nurse her back to health...because he needs to have complete control over her life...and death.
And this breaks him.
He reveals everything to her.
Now she knows she is in control.
And it is this point when she successfully subverts his dominance...and takes control of both their realities.
Now he is the one who should be afraid...
She continues to toy with his dominant tendencies and male ego...knowing she's fully in control.
Constantly teasing him.
Pushing him deeper into his own mind.
But was she ever trying to cure him...or was she always just trying to consume him?
Turns out, she was the spideress, the scorpion, the praying mantis...all along.
This is a film that is as stunning as it is discomforting.
An all around brilliant, arthouse masterpiece of deviant cinema.
9.5 out of 10.
He fears a future where science will render men obsolete, and takes it out on women that refuse to submit to his whims.
After breaking the women down mentally...he forces them to "make love" to a sex doll fashioned in his own image.
All of this is part of a regimen designed to mold these once liberated women into willfully masochistic slaves.
Though, they do so only as a survival mechanism, out of fear they will be murdered by this sick and twisted psychopath.
In order to survive, they must prolong the torture.
This victim, however, tries to infiltrate his psychology in order to cure him.
Or so she claims, at least.
If she can make it come down to a battle of wits...she believes she will win.
She shows no fear, for she does not fear death, as a reincarnationist.
And, slowly, she manages to turn the tables...and seize the role of the dominant.
She plays him...at his own game...by pretending to be into it.
He simply can't handle that.
But he can't get enough of it either.
He needs to break her...but she refuses to break.
She becomes his greatest challenge.
At one point, she makes it look like she overdoses on pills, in order to escape the situation...so he is forced to nurse her back to health...because he needs to have complete control over her life...and death.
And this breaks him.
He reveals everything to her.
Now she knows she is in control.
And it is this point when she successfully subverts his dominance...and takes control of both their realities.
Now he is the one who should be afraid...
She continues to toy with his dominant tendencies and male ego...knowing she's fully in control.
Constantly teasing him.
Pushing him deeper into his own mind.
But was she ever trying to cure him...or was she always just trying to consume him?
Turns out, she was the spideress, the scorpion, the praying mantis...all along.
This is a film that is as stunning as it is discomforting.
An all around brilliant, arthouse masterpiece of deviant cinema.
9.5 out of 10.