Talk:Repulsion (film)

message: While the film involves the repressed sexuality of the young heroine "Carol,"  one issue that has not been discussed is the fact that the "rapists" in Carol's nightmares are primarily Black men.  In the US there have been many examples in film of the fear that all black men want to rape "virginal" white woman.  This was graphically depicted in the film "Birth of a Nation" by D.W. Griffith.  While the mental stability of the main character is the basis of most discussion I wonder how bringing in the discussion of race comments on the sign of times in which the film was made or another critique on Carol's mental stability.
:-reply- I don't agree that the "Black" men raping white women is a significant theme in this movie.  I don't even agree that these men are black.  The men are often shadowed, but the features aren't African, they are Caucasian.  These are white European laborers; perhaps resembling her father, however there does appear to be several of them so they only loosely resemble her father.  I'd like to point out the more significant theme of the rotting rabbit.  I believe this is something like innocence lost.  I'll also point out the maggots and flies are forcibly penetrating the rabbit’s corpse.  The razorblade signifies the violence and dominance of this act.  Both the deterioration of the rabbit and the deterioration of the apartment are parallels to her deteriorating mental state, initially triggered by the audible sex of her sister, and the persistent suitor who is later murdered by Carol.  Also, significant is the fact that Carol appears to have gotten away with everything.  It appears that her innocent beauty is also significant in how she is perceived by our male dominated society.
::- reply - The men in the film are not African-American men. In fact, there seem to be no men of color in the film at all. Carol's nightmares are based, presumably, on either repressed memories or conscious memories of childhood trauma, the implication arising from the photograph depicted at the end of the film which clearly shows Carol looking toward the male figure in fear. TGTommyrocket (talk) 06:51, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: -reply- Sometimes you have to wonder where these comments come from. If one has watched the movie, there are no black men in it. Every single male is a typical Englishman of the day. I guess if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail 203.160.80.237 (talk) 15:42, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Racial Implications of Repulsion.

message: I was just looking on an article about Printmaking Techniques and it came up with a link to a page with the name repulsion. Somehow I don't think this is the right article, maybe someone could put up a link to the meaning of the word repulsionKalishnikov 14:08, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Name 

message: Someone has put this in the article: "As in those two films, the horrors are not external threats, but rather the horrors that lie within the minds of the protagonists." Is that really true about Rosemary's Baby? There is an external horror at force in that film! 195.195.71.146 (talk) 10:46, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research? 

message: Um, in RB, the threat clearly is external.  The devil has intercourse with her and she does have his baby.  It's not all in her head.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.189.237.68 (talk) 02:38, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rosemary's Baby comparison... 

message: Is this section really necessary? Seems ultimately non-NPV and probably more of a link factory that doesn't really do anything but hook (effectively) random pages up to this one. Manys (talk) 08:16, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Similar Films"? 

message: It seems that in his autobiography, Polansky claims that Deneuve's character was based on a girl who seemed normal and pleasant when you first met her but, when she moved in with a friend of his, she became subject to bouts of violence and would find sex both attractive and repellent. In his own biography of Polansky, Thomas Kiernan suggests that the "boyfriend" she moved in with may have been Polansky himself! Can anyone who has these books check out these statements?--Marktreut (talk) 15:45, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inspiration? 

message: "Polanski himself makes a cameo as a mandolin player who is part of a trio of street buskers."
What's the citation for this?  Most articles say he's playing the spoons, not the mandolin.  He doesn't seem to be part of the trio when we first see them in the street (they are all older men). At least one person has claimed online that he appears later on in the film when Carole looks out the window and sees the buskers walking along the street down below.  Unfortunately it's impossible to make out their faces in that long shot. Muzilon (talk) 01:45, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polanski Cameo? 

message: From the Plot section:
:Michael returns and carries Carol out, staring creepily at her wide-open eye, face and body. 
I don't know what that means, and I'm not familiar enough with the film to edit it... Someone? – AndyFielding (talk) 10:12, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Typo(s) in Plot section?