Erotic Movie: Quills

9.07.2011 | By: A. B.

Quills is a brilliant biography of the last years of Marquis de Sade, father of sadism, who was sent away to the insane asylum in 1803.

The story about the last years of the infamous Marquis de Sade is very provocative and direct.

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Marquis de Sade experienced all perversions in reality

“Murderer… Your words drove Bouchon to--,” shouts shocked priest Joaquin Phoenix, who plays the administrator at the Charenton asylum. De Sade looks at him and says: “For fuck’s sake, Abbe. What am I to do? Police my readers as you police me? Suppose one of your precious wards had attempted to walk on water and drowned? Would you condemn the Bible? I think not.” Let’s make it clear, Marquis de Sade wasn’t a perverse freak, but a writer who wrote about perversities. Let’s make it clear again, Marquis de Sade didn’t make things up, but he saw them with his own eyes because he spend most of his life at courts and explored the double nature of wealthy aristocrats. For instance, the earl publicly philosophized about the chaste marriage with his wife and condemned debauchery, while he secretly met up with very young girls at night and had anal intercourse with them. In any case, de Sade didn’t change the world, but merely showed that he knew its darkest secrets. Owing to that, he was often thrown into prison, but he was nevertheless a thorn in the French society’s side until his death in 1814.

The most perverse stories were written in the asylum

Quills scrutinizes the last years of his exciting life he spent in the asylum where supposedly the dirtiest stories were written. When a quill and ink were taken from him, he continued writing with wine and chicken bones. When wine and chicken bones were taken from him, he wrote with blood and glass. When blood and glass were taken from him, he wrote with his own feces. Up to the end. Persistently and shockingly. Immorally and perversely. Sadistically and wildly. Sarcastically and ironically. That’s right, Marquis de Sade was the father of sadism, that is, a sexual practice that caused a big stir. He adored whipping, torture and the primal wild intercourse. When he saw a woman, he first thought of her genitals, like Larry Flynt. Like every healthy guy. Marquis de Sade, who is excellently played by Geoffrey Rush from Shine, was therefore the Larry Flynt of sadism and the master of hot erotica, who was only understood by naughty peasant girls that passionately implemented his literary ideas in their hay barn. Marquis de Sade was an aphrodisiac on two legs and Spanish Fly in the human form. Behind the walls of the asylum, he organized roguish theater plays over which court ladies were in raptures. Wealthy people were afraid of him, whereas poor people proclaimed him a hero. His books were going like hot cakes.

Quills is an example of an excellent and very daring movie.

Aroused maiden

He was even admired by the priest (Joaquin Phoenix) and attractive chambermaid (Kate Winslet), who he aroused with his stories every day. However, annoying doctor (Michael Caine) hated him because his young wife ran away from him after reading one of de Sade’s books. She found out that there’s more to sexuality than just husband’s boring and rough thrusting before going to sleep. Thus, a quill, paper and ink were taken from de Sade and finally his tongue was cut off. Kate Winslet was punished with public whipping, which caused deep feelings of guilt by the priest. Quills, directed by Philip Kaufman, author and director of the masterpieces Invasion of Body Snatchers and The Right Stuff and because of whom NC-17 rating was introduced thanks to the movie Henry & June, is just the right mixture of bizarreness, dirt, erotica, comedy and tragedy. The movie was overlooked at the 2001 Oscars, similar to Dancer in the Dark. What can we do, the Academy always overlooks truly good and daring movies.