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Showgirls: The Porno-Cinematic Masterpiece

November 14, 2024

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by Blender Dumbass

Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film "Moria's Race" and the lead developer of it's game sequel "Dani's Race".

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Paul Verhoeven is to some extend a legendary film-maker. RoboCop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers, Hoolow Man. Movies you have probably seen and seen again. Yet it seems like his movie Showgirls perhaps was made with a miscalculation on his part. c:0 ↩ Reply

The incredible hatred of American people to expressions of utter sexuality in media made Showgirls an easy target for mockery. People perceived it as a rather surface-level soft-pornography, and not a film. And the critics scores of various websites reflect that consensus. Yet I am not one of them. And I think if Verhoeven did the same exact movie, say in Denmark, or some other place in Europe, the film would have received a much greater praise. Just look at Nymphomaniac by Lars Von Trier. c:1 c:2 c:3 ↩ Reply

From the very first shot of the film I knew I will be in love with this movie. Having very incredible MaXXXine vibes the film opened up with this pretty nice shot of a mysterious woman ( our main character ) walking with utmost confidence toward a highway to catch a car. Verhoeven is incredible in this film at telling the story through cinematic nuances. Things in the frame. Looks on the faces of the characters. Expressions. Reactions. Everything makes for a truly visceral experience if you let it do it to you. The scene where Nomi tries to eat french fries in the very beginning. From her poring way too much ketchup, to her smashing the whole plate. The direction of Verhoeven is so masterful that you as an audience member gets to feel what she feels. c:4 ↩ Reply

Despite it is being technically a soft-pornography picture, it is a movie about sexual oppression and the way Hollywood is apparently hiding it. It is as if Verhoeven was trying to start the MeToo movement back in 1995. The main plot is kind of interwoven into various stages of show-business abuse. From a strip-club owner from whom it is unclear whether he jokes or not, when he says to the new girl that he wants blowjobs. To the utter unwillingness of producers and other people in charge to take any action against absolutely undeniable fact that one of their main stars is a violent serial rapist. With one of the scariest plot twits rape scenes ever. Sorry for the spoilers. c:5 ↩ Reply

Also the film has one of the most pumped up energetic bisexual love triangles. And, oh man, the energy of this film is on the level of something like Damien Chazelle's Babylon. The movie just goes full speed and never takes a break. There were a few cuts to the next scene that were kind of strange, flow-wise. Sometimes the movie just needs to introduce a new thing and it momentarily slows down to do so. So yeah, I'm not claiming that Verhoeven is as good as Chazelle or Spielberg when it comes to flow. But he is damn close. ↩ Reply

In a nutshell, the movie feels like a mash between Adrian Lyne's Flashdance, Damien Chazelle's Babylon, Ti West's MaXXXine and Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac, well stirred and served in a colorful presentation straight from Nicolas Winding Refn. ↩ Reply

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Troler c:0 June 05, 2026

Paul Verhoeven is to some extend a legendary film-maker. RoboCop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers, Hoolow Man. Movies you have probably seen and seen again. Yet it seems like his movie Showgirls perhaps was made with a miscalculation on his part.

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There was no miscalculation, the movie is perfect.

Troler c:1 June 05, 2026

The incredible hatred of American people to expressions of utter sexuality in media made Showgirls an easy target for mockery

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The logic is simple. Its okay to mutilate a human body, because having sex with it is not going to be as difficult. If a person is dead there is no resistance. An alive human being is going refuse.

And if you ask me what am I writing about. Imagine action and violence as an allegory to sex.

Troler c:2 June 05, 2026

People perceived it as a rather surface-level soft-pornography, and not a film

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Michael Bay films are just blatantly action flicks with nothing of value.

Troler c:3 June 05, 2026

And I think if Verhoeven did the same exact movie, say in Denmark, or some other place in Europe, the film would have received a much greater praise

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Spermageddon

Troler c:4 June 05, 2026

The direction of Verhoeven is so masterful that you as an audience member gets to feel what she feels

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Watching the movie I felt very horny

Troler c:5 June 06, 2026

With one of the scariest plot twits rape scenes ever. Sorry for the spoilers

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For the uninitiated, it gets worse

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"Your honor..." - said the lawyer, standing in a court, which was being broadcast on a screen in the living-room of Mr. Hambleton's house - "...there is no denying that my client is guilty in the murders of all of those people that were mentioned in the case so far. The evidence provided by the police are undeniable. The jury would also agree that the fact that my client did commit all those murders are beyond reasonable doubt. And my client doesn't try to conceal this fact either. Right?" - the lawyer looked at the cage standing in the corner of the court room. There was sitting a man. He had chains all over him. Two policemen were guarding the cage itself. The man looked up, exchanged a stare of understanding with the lawyer and said - "I did commit those murders, sir."

Why pedophilia in particular is such a great tool when it comes to arguing for mass surveillance

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People in the government rarely have the interests of the public as their primary goals. This has been like this since the invention of governments. But while with kings and queens of the middle ages it was apparent that it's the case, politician now a days with democracy, which allocates some control to the masses, have to pretend that they care about this thing of that thing, so that the masses would choose them to form the government. There is no reason to be a politician if you aren't fighting for some sort of control over the masses. Very rarely politicians are genuine, and even those that are, are swapped into the same scheming and manipulations of the public as any other ones. The competition demands thins kind of vicious behavior. The unfortunate truth is that for those manipulations of the masses, there should be mechanisms for such manipulations. And if the masses can get away from those mechanisms by forming ways to preserve their rightful freedoms, the government has to intervene and scheme something so that the freedom itself would sound like a bad idea to the masses.

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