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Yeah, and the plastic tarp, food detritus and look of joy just round out the photo.
Why does Chico think we want to see this?

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I know it sounds ridiculous, but such imagery is important. There is subtext. There is allegory. I must point out that neither of those qualities may be inntentional. This paradoxically, given the ccontext, frees it up from the cult of personality trappings of thye insipid auteur bent of most popular culture, and it remainns dense. I remainn dense too, according to Momma, God rest her soul.

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So, we, as the viewer (according to Foucault) are acting as the machine that is chewing up her soul? Or maybe it's that she is watching us watch her, as the opticon (again Foucault), sensing our gaze and taking it as a means of monitoring her behavior? It might be a reference to the experience we have as children, when we for the first time see ourselves as separate from our mothers ( J. Lacan)? But I think it's just one bored pornographer, who as a joke makes the worst stuff he can and then sells it off to his production house as a way of escaping the torment of his own sense of failure as an Asian man in high-tech that has to film the defilement of young women to pay his bills.
Of course, it could just be a mean way of making a chick know she's a piece of meat, in a more subtle fashion than Khan or Ashley.
Personally, the movie like this I'd buy would be the one where mom and daughter Randall, Hef's kid, Larry's spawn and all the backroom and front office women take the minion or an AB shoot for us all to enjoy

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According to Lacan, we enter a quasi-dream state when watching movies which allows us to project ourselves into the diegesis. The Movie screen (Lacan and his brood wrote before people watched movies on iPods) acts as a surrogate for the Mirror. In Lacanian iconography, the Mirror phase occurs when the child is able to recognize itself as a distinct object in the mirror. It's a different way of looking at what Freud would call the moment of differentiation of the ego ideal (superego) from the ego.

Ironically, the transformation of an erotic object choice into an alteration of the ego is a method by which the ego obtains control over the id. The ego ideal is not simply a residue of the earliest object choices of the id; it also represents an energetic reaction-formation against those choices. The ego ideal is the heir of the Oedipus complex.

By recognizing ourselves in the Minion AND in Jersey, we get closure, putting the baser Oedipal desires behind us (except maybe CAOH), and allows us to attain fulfillment in all areas of our lives.

Do you think Jersey thought about this when the Minion was fucking her, or did she simply think, "I should have stayed in school!"