tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7286673910044050811.post2956856085280112743..comments2024-03-26T18:28:58.729-04:00Comments on Just a Cineast: Merle Oberon goes wild!Ted S. (Just a Cineast)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12394770582776749331noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7286673910044050811.post-81438776852745044732013-11-16T15:41:31.694-05:002013-11-16T15:41:31.694-05:00This movie recently aired on the Fox channel on No...This movie recently aired on the Fox channel on November 16th, 2013. If you pay attention to the real back story of this movie, the actor Curt Jurgens, who plays Oberon's jealous stepbrother has a rather twisted attraction for his stepsister that he plays out throughout the movie. He tortures her into believing that she is the family problem. As a young virgin, she refused to give herself to a young lover before he went off to fight in WWII. He ends up killing himself because she refuses to sleep with him. Women were expected to maintain their virginity during this time period for the marriage bed. The step-brother convinces Oberon's character that she is responsible for bringing shame on the family name, convincing her that she is a sex-addict, playing on her guilt over not giving herself to the young soldier. The reality was that Curt Jurgen's character wanted Oberon's character to recognize that he wanted her for himself. Now that is crazy!<br /><br />As Katherine runs through the streets and the hotel and is finally surrounded by a group of men in the streets-this scene is a sexual metaphor for all of the men's arms she has fallen into in the past.<br /><br />If anything, this movie does a good job of brainwashing women into believing that your a loose woman and a whore if you sleep with too many men but it's okay if guys during this time period sleep with everything that walks and brag about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com