I am curious (Yellow) 1967 Vilgot Sjöman

Yeah, just like that, I'm curious. Curiosity drives me to see these kind of films. In my case, more likely it would be "I Am Curious (Red)".

The whole construction of this film intrigued me. Characters with their real names. Almost with their real lives. The personage’s characters are almost identical to actors’ characters who play these personages. There is hard to understand what scenes are created specifically for the film and what scenes develop naturally.

Into the film’s "style" seems clearly a kind of influence from "Nouvelle Vague". Wordplay. Atypical chronology. Plus, in some moments Lena looks "too fashion" for her style of living. Almost as "fashion" as Anna Karina in the films of Jean-Luc Godard. As though giving a buffet to the social class they come from.

The film was banned in some countries (in those years) including the U.S. Allegedly because of  the  pornographic content. Or those Lena’s theories about social classes and non-violence were more "decadent" than pornography on that time?

I like to believe that the real reason was the answer to this rhetorical question. I may be wrong.

Blonde Lena, sometimes full of confidence , at times so grumbler, sometimes nestled under her  idyllic shell, at times a real activist exposing the most pressing problems of the time, remains in all cases "curious". Curious about what is happening inside her and curious about the world around.

Questions that makes Lena at the beginning of the film are shocking, not only for that time, but also for today.

"Do we have a class system in (Sweden)?" => Sweden can be replaced with any state.

And another: "What are we going to do about it?"

In a world where the class hierarchy is a normal phenomenon, even vital (at least so they told us) for the human society progress, asking questions like "What are we going to do about the class system?" is to deny the essence of the existence of this society, society itself.

So, if we eradicate capitalism (since at first glance it seems like there is its fault) ...then what? Even the cave men had a hierarchy. Namely we can not blame only over capitalism, this issue seems a little bit more complex. Guiltiness consists to that  human ego that feels completely self-satisfied (everything is a matter of perception) only when it breaks someone else’s ego.

In other words, riches do not experience any great fun to see others being poor and powerless. They just want  to be rich and powerful themselves. But always is needed a referral system. If there will be no poor, hence there will be no rich. Because, compared to who, they will be rich?

It seems deeper than it should be, right...?

1. Vilgot Sjöman was born in a simple working class family.

2. Lena’s conflict with her father.

... These reasons are more than sufficient to go that deep in the case above, which for me is the arbor of the film.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I do not believe that Martin Luther King Jr. was a random choice. The film has come out in '67, uffa, (and then they say it was  banned for pornography!!!). The two Lena’s dreams are the two major wounds of  humanity, at least for that time (some progress has been made today) Afro-Americans’ rights and Women's rights.

Even in Sweden of "social democracy" we see a decaying society (occasionally beautiful in appearance). A society that generally agree with what “majority” says and makes and that hardly shows any kind of interest on what is happening around the world. They go for happy holidays in Spain, at a time when Spanish people suffer under General Franco's regime.

As for that controversial sexuality in this movie ... there are some interesting positions.

Even Lena herself is quite interesting, especially about how she sees herself (sometimes she has a low self-esteem) ...like the three-quarters of normal women, or even normal people.

I myself can sit all day long watching naked Lena and Börje, having sex in strange positions, even from the most vulgar ones (if you want to call it so) ... and still there I find Art.

Vilgot Sjöman

Usually I have a negative feeling of sex scenes in Hollywood films, although they have almost no sex at all within, being that "glossy" , they make you feel a bit weird (in a sort of way). And Art is the only thing I can’t see in these cases.

There is also an "I Am Curious (Blue)", but I will not see it soon. I want to keep a little more these extravagant hyper-emotions of "I Am Curious (Yellow)".

From me, this film has a big like (who cares what the world says) ...by Led Kasapi