Letterboxd — Your life in film

definitely not nothing going on here, e.g. the motif of the severed arm suggests something like lust as the desire to carve up and preserve the object of erotic fixation forever, which dovetails nicely with Ryuzaki's job as a photographer, wherein he was already doing the same, just with a camera instead of a sword. Querelle handles a lot of the same material better, though, insofar as it traces the connection between queer eroticism and the death drive not through…