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THE LOVER DURAS SEX MOVIE

The Alcoholic: The older brother in the novel.

Third-Person Person: Duras in the novel switches back and forth between first and third person.

The Un-Favourite: Both Paolo and The Girl to their mother.

Star-Crossed Lovers: Both protagonists acknowledge from the beginning that there's no future in the affair.

As the Girl departs on the ship to France, she sees his limousine parked on the docks.

Stalking Is Love: The Chinaman waits outside her school every day, while the girl turns up at his Arranged Marriage.

The Girl responds by demanding money as if they were in a brothel. Along with jealousy caused by the Girl dancing with her younger brother, this leads the Chinaman to rape her on their return to their love nest.

Rape as Drama: The Chinaman takes the Girl's family out to dinner where they respond by alternately ignoring and humiliating him.

His father replies that he'd rather see his son dead than involved with a white girl.

The Patriarch: The Chinaman begs his father to delay his Arranged Marriage a year so he can experience this One True Love.

One True Love: At the end of the movie, The Narrator tells how she got a phone call from the Chinaman after she became a writer later in life, saying that he has never stopped loving her.

Opium Den: The Chinaman tries to dull his pain with opium when the time comes for the Girl to return to France.

No Name Given: The protagonists are only referred to as The Young Girl and The Chinaman.

Mood Dissonance: While his family has a screaming match over the Girl's affair in the next room, the younger brother is playing a piano trying to drown them out.

The Mother is abusive and completely out of touch with reality.

Millionaire Playboy: Subverted the Chinaman is a handsome and wealthy hedonist, but is physically weak and lacking in self-confidence.

Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow: The very rare gender-inverted version where a White girl is being charmed by a high-class Asian man.Love Hurts: In the end, the Girl and the Chinaman have to come to terms with the idea that they can't be together.Love at First Sight: The Chinaman falls for the Girl from the moment he sees her standing by the railing of a cross-river ferry.Longing Look: A constant motif throughout the movie.It's only when she's on the ship back to France that she's forced to acknowledge her feelings. It Doesn't Mean Anything: The Girl repeatedly tells the Chinaman that she's not in love with him.Innocent Fanservice Girl: Helene walks around the school dormitory naked.Incest Subtext: The elder brother has a predatory interest in his sister, while the sight of the Girl dancing intimately with her young brother drives the Chinaman to jealousy.Idle Rich: The Chinaman admits that he's never been good at studying or business.In the film they lie in bed together while talking about the affair, and when Helene fantasizes about sleeping with men for money, the Girl caresses her body and talks about how lucky those men would be. Homoerotic Subtext: The Girl in the novel speaks explicitly of wanting to make love to Helene.Naturally the Girl's mother and elder brother refuse to believe the Chinaman would give her an expensive diamond ring if he wasn't getting something in return, despite her fervent denials. Heirloom Engagement Ring: The Chinaman gives the Girl his mother's ring, presumably a family heirloom meant to be passed onto the women he's been arranged to marry, and he's shown placing it on her ring finger just like you would with your betrothed.Fille Fatale: It's the girl who is the sexual aggressor.

THE LOVER DURAS SEX MOVIE

Explicit Content: The movie is quite renowned for its barely censored sex scenes and generous amounts of nudity and overall eroticism.Ephebophile: The Girl claims to be seventeen, but she's actually fifteen years old.Elephant in the Living Room: No-one outside their families confront them about the scandal, and everyone takes it for granted that she's sleeping with the Chinaman for money, as the idea that two people of different races would fall in love is unthinkable.It's clear that the Girl prostituting herself is as much an escape, as a means of solving their financial difficulties. Dysfunctional Family: The Girl's mother is a manic depressive, a poor land investment has destroyed their savings, and the elder brother bullies his younger siblings and steals from his family to feed his gambling and opium habits.She in turn stands with one foot on the ship's railing in imitation of when they first met, not moving or showing any emotion, just looking in his direction until his car is no longer in sight. Dissonant Serenity: As the ship departs for France, the Girl sees the black limousine parked on the docks with her lover motionless inside.