There is but one thing that came to my mind when I watched “The Lost Thing”.It is the tale as old as time; the absolute failure of the male species to give women orgasms.
The film sets in an dystopian industrial city, presumably in the future due to all the advancements in technology, where a man finds a “lost thing”. The man is conflicted by the lost thing since he cannot find its rightful owner. However after a long journey, he is able to take it back to its euphoric land, thus intending a climax.
First of all, I’m sure we can all agree that the robot symbolizes the female genitalia. I hope I wasn’t the only one who found the tentacles weirdly sexual. In my defense, we live in a world where tentacle porn exists.
The town represents the negligent sexual intercourse that is being had that is male centric and not at all pleasurable for the female partner. When they say they are “busy with other stuff”, it is clear that they are solely focused on their own pleasure.
Now as this is an academic assignment, I will not go into detail about what the arrows mean, just that there are overwhelming amounts of instructions and it is a long and hard process to get to the end.
As the story “climaxes” (sexual innuendo intended), the characters reach a land where “no one can find unless you were looking for it”. This has “the female orgasm” written in big fat red letters all over it. The land is paradise taken over by robots, contrasting to the rest of the world that the man lives in. Since the man is not allowed in, does this mean that lesbianism is the answer to female pleasure? That is an answer we will never know.
Now the Irony of it all is that the man knows for a fact where the land of paradise is, but refuses to take the lost things to it. He is unwilling to make the effort to help these robots out of laziness, making the excuse that he doesn’t notice them anymore. Willing oblivion will be the death of women as this man as well, shuts the door of female pleasure to obtain his own pleasure. A truly eye-opening short movie about the misogyny in our sexual culture.
No hate to all the boys out here, y’all stay safe
