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Ramior a écrit:comme quoi c'était un film très sous estimer
Ai Aoyama is a sex and relationship counsellor who works out of her narrow three-storey home on a Tokyo back street. Her first name means "love" in Japanese, and is a keepsake from her earlier days as a professional dominatrix. Back then, about 15 years ago, she was Queen Ai, or Queen Love, and she did "all the usual things" like tying people up and dripping hot wax on their nipples. Her work today, she says, is far more challenging. Aoyama, 52, is trying to cure what Japan's media calls sekkusu shinai shokogun, or "celibacy syndrome".
Japan's under-40s appear to be losing interest in conventional relationships. Millions aren't even dating, and increasing numbers can't be bothered with sex. For their government, "celibacy syndrome" is part of a looming national catastrophe. Japan already has one of the world's lowest birth rates. Its population of 126 million, which has been shrinking for the past decade, is projected to plunge a further one-third by 2060. Aoyama believes the country is experiencing "a flight from human intimacy" – and it's partly the government's fault.
The sign outside her building says "Clinic". She greets me in yoga pants and fluffy animal slippers, cradling a Pekingese dog whom she introduces as Marilyn Monroe. In her business pamphlet, she offers up the gloriously random confidence that she visited North Korea in the 1990s and squeezed the testicles of a top army general. It doesn't say whether she was invited there specifically for that purpose, but the message to her clients is clear: she doesn't judge.
Inside, she takes me upstairs to her "relaxation room" – a bedroom with no furniture except a double futon. "It will be quiet in here," she says. Aoyama's first task with most of her clients is encouraging them "to stop apologising for their own physical existence".
The number of single people has reached a record high. A survey in 2011 found that 61% of unmarried men and 49% of women aged 18-34 were not in any kind of romantic relationship, a rise of almost 10% from five years earlier. Another study found that a third of people under 30 had never dated at all. (There are no figures for same-sex relationships.) Although there has long been a pragmatic separation of love and sex in Japan – a country mostly free of religious morals – sex fares no better. A survey earlier this year by the Japan Family Planning Association (JFPA) found that 45% of women aged 16-24 "were not interested in or despised sexual contact". More than a quarter of men felt the same way.
Aoyama cites one man in his early 30s, a virgin, who can't get sexually aroused unless he watches female robots on a game similar to Power Rangers. "I use therapies, such as yoga and hypnosis, to relax him and help him to understand the way that real human bodies work." Sometimes, for an extra fee, she gets naked with her male clients – "strictly no intercourse" – to physically guide them around the female form. Keen to see her nation thrive, she likens her role in these cases to that of the Edo period courtesans, or oiran, who used to initiate samurai sons into the art of erotic pleasure.
Aversion to marriage and intimacy in modern life is not unique to Japan. Nor is growing preoccupation with digital technology. But what endless Japanese committees have failed to grasp when they stew over the country's procreation-shy youth is that, thanks to official shortsightedness, the decision to stay single often makes perfect sense. This is true for both sexes, but it's especially true for women. "Marriage is a woman's grave," goes an old Japanese saying that refers to wives being ignored in favour of mistresses. For Japanese women today, marriage is the grave of their hard-won careers.
I meet Eri Tomita, 32, over Saturday morning coffee in the smart Tokyo district of Ebisu. Tomita has a job she loves in the human resources department of a French-owned bank. A fluent French speaker with two university degrees, she avoids romantic attachments so she can focus on work. "A boyfriend proposed to me three years ago. I turned him down when I realised I cared more about my job. After that, I lost interest in dating. It became awkward when the question of the future came up."
Tomita says a woman's chances of promotion in Japan stop dead as soon as she marries. "The bosses assume you will get pregnant." Once a woman does have a child, she adds, the long, inflexible hours become unmanageable. "You have to resign. You end up being a housewife with no independent income. It's not an option for women like me."
Around 70% of Japanese women leave their jobs after their first child. The World Economic Forum consistently ranks Japan as one of the world's worst nations for gender equality at work. Social attitudes don't help. Married working women are sometimes demonised as oniyome, or "devil wives". In a telling Japanese ballet production of Bizet's Carmen a few years ago, Carmen was portrayed as a career woman who stole company secrets to get ahead and then framed her lowly security-guard lover José. Her end was not pretty.
Windspirit a écrit:Reportage culte qui de ce côté-ci de l'océan avait bien fait rager les féministes qui se sont dit que la technologie rendrait peut-être bientôt les femmes obsolètes
Aer a écrit:En même temps ça règlera les problèmes de surpopulation.
Windspirit a écrit:BBC s'y met aussi tiens.
"Je peux me joindre à vous ?"Ileca a écrit:Tu es censé dire quoi quand ton mari te trompe avec une lycéenne de Love Plus ?
Suite à un nombre important de consultations simultanées,
http://www.horlogeparlante.com est momentanément inaccessible...
Windspirit a écrit:Dommage que ce ne soit ni marrant, ni étonnant.
Je plains la pauvre Eri, dans 30-40 ans elle sera clouée au lit entourée d'étrangers et regardera le plafond en pleurant sur son compte en banque et patrimoine immobilier que l'état récupérera faute d'héritiers légaux.
Reportage culte qui de ce côté-ci de l'océan avait bien fait rager les féministes qui se sont dit que la technologie rendrait peut-être bientôt les femmes obsolètes
Windspirit a écrit:Si tu veux philosopher sur ce topic, il faudra se conformer au titre et rendre ça marrant.
Moi je peux le faire sans problème.
a-yin a écrit:En même temps tout le monde n'est pas préocupé par ce qui se passera après sa mort. Pour ma part, je ne le suis pas du tout (sauf si je devais laisser des héritiers financièrement dans la merde ou malheureux dans leur vie). Je comprends totalement Eri sur ce plan, elle a un job qu'elle aime et le gouvernement est trop contraignant pour permettre à une femme d'assumer vie personnelle et vie professionnelle. Et tout le monde ne veut pas forcément avoir des enfants (surtout si c'est pour finir esclave de la baraque... et je ne parle pas de l'ancien temps mais aujourd'hui pour les corvées, la double-journée, l'éducation des bambins en majorité assumés par les femmes).
Outre l'absence de sexe, et donc la baisse de naissance, je trouve surtout alarmant cette flemme du contact de l'autre, la flemme de la relation humaine. Moi-même je connais cette flemme et je m'interroge parfois vis-à-vis de ça.
a-yin a écrit:Je ne comprends pas pourquoi les féministes ont ragé ou hurlé face à ce reportage. Pourquoi la technologie rendrait les femmes "obsolètes"? Alors ça signifierait que les femmes ne servent qu'au sexe? Je doute que les féministes aient cette image de la femme...
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