Joy / Успех Год производства: 1977 г. Страна: USA Жанр: Feature (Straight, Couples) Продолжительность: 01:13:00 Режиссер: Harvey Mansfield Студия: Video X Pix / Distribpix Inc Язык: Английский В ролях: Jack Teague, Melinda Marlowe, Richard Bola, Sharon Mitchell Описание: This is one of the first Sharon Mitchell films. She demonstrated a special talent in this film that sent her on a successful career. It is about a young high school girl that is pressured by her boyfriend to have her first sexual experience. She refuses him, and he decides to break up with her. Then while at home alone, gets raped in the apartment which she resides, and immediately loves the whole sexual experience. In the end, even telling the rapist, "I want more!!!". She then goes to her old boyfriend apartment where she finds him in the shower. She gets undressed and hops into the shower with him. She then performs oral sex on him and he, needless to say, enjoys the experience. But after he is finished, she still "wants more". The rest of the movie is filled with her quest for more sex with several partners, at many different locations, including a subway train, a hospital bed, and even a men's room in a bus depot. She becomes very popular and well documented, even on a TV news program. Other women take up the same type of aggressive action of attacking men. Three girls accost a lone man in an elevator. A burglar breaks into an apartment to perform oral sex on a man, while his wife who has refused his advances earlier, sleeps in their bed. This is just a great light hearted movie that is very enjoyable viewing, filled with casual happy sex, and showing that women can be aggressive when they want to be.
"Joy opens innocently enough with a group of "high schoolers," among them a young Sharon Mitchel who plays the title role, who refuses to put out for her boyfriend, instead staying she wants to remain a virgin until marriage. However, when she gets home, she is promptly raped by two Mexicans, but upon the conclusion of the act realizes she just hasn't had enough (!) and begins "raping" men across NYC, resulting in a male "rape" epidemic... The above synopsis might make this film sound misogynistic, a view I held until I rewatched the film for this review. I suppose this film is a bit misogynistic in concept but its rape infused pretext is actually a metaphor for something much more interesting. The general fear of touching on the part of America. Mitchel's character is initially sexually repressed but when she is [forcibly] liberated, she realizes the true "joy" of a free state of mind. Her resulting actions are not ones of violence, but rather of liberation as she and the other women who follow suite and begin "raping" men are also simply acting on the part of societal sexual liberation. The film draws an interesting parallel between sexual frustration and violence when a newscaster states that since Joy's attacks began, NYC has been free of violent crime. The irony of this is that Joy's acts are supposed to violent crimes! The implication of this is that her deeds are not ones of violence but almost function as a public service. The film also presents a number of montages of people happily cuddling and kissing in the streets as a result of their new found unabashed desire to love in public. The world the film implies Joy is creating is Utopian, free of crime and anguish where people are free to make love wherever they wish without the stigma of societal scorn. Relating to that is the film's reccuring displays of public sex which also reinforces the notion of doing away with random and prudish morals. The brazenly liberal and possibly anarchistic politics with which this film is filled are furthered by the portrayal of the police force as the only people against what Joy is doing. It is also notable that (with the possible exception of the first sex scene) the only actual rape in the film is performed by a policeman. The irony of a policeman being the only one truly guilty of a crime is most telling of the film's agenda, as is the resolution of Joy's case on the part of Jack Teague, who plays Lt. Handcock. **SPOILERS**His telling her to leave town as a means of essentially maintaining the status-quo indicates a couple of things. First, a Utopian society where peace and love prevail over crime and violence would lead to no need for a police force. Second, it more metaphorically shows government's preference for it's citizens to be unhappy so because if people were completely happy and satisfied with their lives, there would be no need for any government.**END SPOILERS** What's more is the absolute technical perfection with which Joy is shot. Credited to one "Harley Mansfield," the director's real identity remains a mystery to this day, although the most likely culprit is the great Chuck Vincent. The film bears many similarities to Vincent's comedies of the period and his love of New York locations. Furthermore, the block on which Jerry Butler kisses V. Hart in Vincent's Rommates is shot on here numerous times and Vincent's editor James MacReading cut this pic using a silly pseudonym. In any case, Joy is a wonderfully made and extremely well thought out underrated classic of the 1970s. See it!"
Под псевдонимом Harley Mansfield, как пишут, скрывался режиссёр Chuck Vincent. Один из ранних фильмов Sharon Mitchell, да. Такая йуная здесь... Прочитал, что релиз фильма в своё время якобы был отложен, т.е. снят он был за некоторое время до 77-го. Вполне возможно: почти все участники засветились в порно раньше 75-го (так что могли сняться здесь); да и сам фильм по стилю съёмки больше похож на что-то более раннее, чем 77-й. Там ещё в кадре реально выходившая газета мелькает, где написан номер и год её выхода, но качество не позволяет толком рассмотреть Можно было бы ещё поискать фильмы Шэрон Митчел за 76-77-й годы и сравнить, как она в них выглядела, но – лень... >] «Joy» определённо заслуживает ремастеринга; жаль, не сложилось.
Можно было бы ещё поискать фильмы Шэрон Митчел за 76-77-й годы и сравнить, как она в них выглядела, но – лень... >]
