“Sex, Lies, and Videotape” “Changes caused by encounters” created by an angel/devil with a camera

"Sex, Lies, and Videotape" Synopsis

The setting is Baton Rouge, an American suburb. John (Peter Gallagher) and Anne (Andie MacDowell), a married couple living in this town, appear to be living a happy life to the outside, but in reality, their relationship is full of deceit and emptiness. Anne's husband, John, is having a sexual relationship with Anne's sister, Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo), and Anne suffers from lack of sex with her husband and depression, and spends her days visiting a psychiatrist. John's old friend Graham (James Spader) comes to visit them. Through his intervention, a life full of deceit collapses and major changes occur.

Index

• A story that unfolds due to the inclusion of “foreign objects”
• Personal problems faced by each character
• What is “Graham = Foreign Body”?

A story that unfolds due to the inclusion of “foreign objects”

People constantly change depending on their encounters with someone/something. For example, by encountering a book, you learn something you didn't know before, by encountering a movie, you see a landscape you've never seen before, and by meeting a person, you feel a new emotion within yourself. It will probably sprout. Every time we turn a page, every time a scene changes, every time we pass someone, we change.

` `Sex, Lies, and Videotape '' (1989), directed by Steven Soderbergh, known for the `` Oceans '' series (01-07) and `` Logan Lucky '' (17), depicts this ``change due to encounters''. I think it's a painting. As the title suggests, the characters relate to each other through ``sex,'' ``lies,'' and ``video tape.'' This is Soderbergh's debut film, and is one of his masterpieces, winning the Palme d'Or at the 42nd Cannes Film Festival, and is a unique work.

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Let's write a brief synopsis. The setting is Baton Rouge, an American suburb. John (Peter Gallagher) and Anne (Andie MacDowell), a married couple living in this town, appear to be living a happy life to the outside, but in reality, their relationship is full of deceit and emptiness. Anne's husband, John, is having a sexual relationship with Anne's sister, Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo), and Anne suffers from lack of sex with her husband and depression, and spends her days visiting a psychiatrist. John's old friend Graham (James Spader) comes to visit them. Through his intervention, a life full of deceit is destroyed and great changes are brought about.

The main characters in this work are the four people listed above. With the addition of Graham to the love triangle with John at the top, the ``harmony'' that had been maintained in a sense is disrupted. However, the word "collapse" is a bit of an understatement. Of course, the relationship between John, Anne, and Cynthia becomes more disturbed, but as the love triangle becomes a four-way relationship, a new "relationship" is born. This is the same as adding a new point next to a triangle to make it a quadrilateral. In other words, it transforms.

This is, of course, a phenomenon that occurs not only in their relationships in movies, but also in human relationships in our real world. This is how encounters between people have an impact on those around them. And, of course, the individuals there are changing, just as the ``transformation'' of their relationships results. Graham, who has changed the stable relationship between Ann and the others, is a "foreign object" for the time being, and the story will unfold as this is introduced.

Personal problems faced by each character