Despite still finding this incredibly flawed, honestly generally still agreeing with the basic points of each of my criticisms from my first time watching this/my first review, watching this again six years out I'm not so sure why it struck me as so incompetent and offensive. I think the biggest thing that sticks out to me is that this series should've (obviously, in my opinion) been two, two and a half hour long films, the first devoted to the 80s…

self-awakening - june, the beginning of summer. steamy and wrapped in humidity. everything in this film is wet ~~~ the streets, the windows, the people, their skin ~~~ dangerously erotic, but not pornographic. very little nudity or explicit sexual acts. no, the sensory pleasure is seen entirely in their faces, those agape mouths and twisted expressions of pure joy (and humiliation, sweet humiliation) ~~~ seeing those faces they make and understanding what they need.

repeated throughout the film are shots…