For those of you who can’t read the text, try clicking on the pictures. I will write this out to make it easier when I have a little more time.
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For those of you who can’t read what this says - it says the following:
ARTS - 1100
October 8th, 2007
Film Review
2 Girls 1 Cup
In the masterful modern work 2girls1cup, the feminist genre is reexamined through a series of reversals of expectations. The prevalent ideologies of our culture are filtered through the lens of the pornographic genre - and, in true morder form - the work tends to raise more questions than it answers.
The opening image, that of the stenciled “MFX 1209″ suggests a confusing misunderstanding - the 1209 seems as some sort of date, yet the aesthetic number lends itself to a futuristic association. This blurring of past and future mixed with the confusion of the assumed-to-be acronym primes the audience for the confusion to come.
The first image with the two primary characters (who, for the sake of this reading, I will consider to be the “2girls that are referred to in the title_ is seemingly innocuous - the cross-cultural, lesbian interaction defines the equal-rights(both feminine and racial) within the genre of pornography.
The gentle background music lulls the audience to sleep, and the timely but gradual change into the next shot at :11 goes by largely unnoticed by the audience. The eyes are immediately drawn to the “Cup” (also presumed to be that mentioned in the title) the inversion of the phallus and perhaps one of the most overarching symbols for feminine spirituality and sexuality in antiquity.
The gentle piano concerto will continue as the cup is suddenly and ironically filled with a streaming shot of fecal matter from the anus of our primary character. In this way, the masculines, derogatory nature of the pornographic genre returns in a surprising, explosive manner. The fecal matter “penetrates” the sacred chalice, which raises a number of interesting questions. Many of these questions pertains to lesbian sexuality - is womanly love possible without the masculine grotesque?Is the pornographic genre doomed to exist within the realm of humiliating acts, even when the only participants are an innocuous 2 girls, and 1 cup? The later image of the two characters attempting to kiss through the feces of masculine grotesque (as well as the literal feces) will only support this theme.
The excited but hesitant tonguing suggests a sort of apprehension on the part of the lead characters, but by :25 any hope of redemption has been lost. This transition from playful tonguing to full fecal consumption happens as suddenly as the transitionto the original defecatory act - why do these central thematic moments happen offstage? There is no dramatic dialogue, neither character gives voice to the greater internal struggles that surely must precede the decision to consume another’s feces. This central thematic crux is internalized in both the characters, and thus is obscured from the audiences perception as well.
If you’re unsure what 2girls1cup is, I suggest you don’t find out. The scarring that can occur never ever goes away. It does contain pornography, so please check with your local authorities if you are of age to view this content. Still keen? Here is the link.
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If you can’t read it, it says the following:
Student response:
Civil War Hero -
During the Civil War many people influenced because of being such great Heroes. Well only one of these people actually did something. This was a man amongst men it is just a shame that he was killed.
Jesus was probably the main factor why the Divil war was fought the way it was. Not only was Jesus super cool he was really smart. Jesus was born in 1923 about the time of the roaring 20’s (or when you were born Btw did you go to school with him.) Si anyways everyone knew Jesus was something great. When he turned three he mastered the pogo stick everyone knows how hard that damn thing is. Shortly after ge was bored with it so he bought a bike. One day he was out on this nice bike he just spent a lot of money on and some black guy stole it out from underneath him. He ran after him for hours screaming, “nigga stole my bike!” no one did anything at all. This is when he knew it was time for a change. He quickly learned that black people don’t steal scooters. So he asked Marty Melfy could bring him one from the past because those things died along with president Clinton. He got his scooter and rode it from Springfield New York all the way to Olympia Washington, that’s like 5 billion miles that’s e lot even for an airplane. Once he got there he came ip with a plan, this plan seemed crazy, it was called the non-violent protest. He sat around for days until someone just told him he could have the government. He decided that black peoeple needed to stop stealing bikes. Because of this the Civil War broke out. The Civil war was between China and Pakistan. The people fought for about fifty years the war finally ended in 2020 . But only because China was like Jesus we are out of ammo, Jesus simply replied “What do I have to work with?” he only had a banana, 15 seconds later he developed the atom bomb and dropped it on Pakistan and killed a lot of people. The people thought Jesus was moding so they quit and joined a new server. Once the war was over Jesus was hit by a car, and with his last breath he said “warship me!” and died.
As you can see without Jesus the world would be a terrible place. All over the world black people would be stealing your bike. So without him, we all would be helpless.
Teacher response:
There are clear issues with the paper. As one cal tell you seemed to have taken this as a joke. Along with numerous grammatical and structural errors, you failed to prove anything with the presented information. With that I will need to speak with you and arrange a new paper topic.
