Quote from: XE on December 12, 2009, 10:23:17 PM
SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist 1997
Pretty ok film. Still would recommend to start w/ Supermasochist book.
Sheree Rose one mean mama. Its rare to have genuine sadist (straight) woman. If I remember right Sheree was in abusive relationship before Bob. it was her time to be the punisher. Have seen this only once at film festival Helsinki late 90s. Have to get dvd.
Eleczema has used Flanagan samples.
Do you remember the whole film? Just watched this the other night on DVD. Amazing documentary. It gets really hard to watch at a point.... not because of him hammering a nail through his dick or any of the other masochistic acts, but more because of how depressing his life is towards the end, and the final scenes of his final moments...
I had a much different take on Sheree though. Bob was really the one pulling all the strings... the one with all the ideas, the one who taught her how to be that way, he told her what to do to him, and how to do it... he was much more in control than she was, even when he was submitted to her. At the end of the movie, you can really see how annoying she is when she whines to Bob about he isn't submitting to her enough anymore, meanwhile her role has been taken over by his disease, which was doling out way more pain than she could have possibly given him, and all she could think to do as he died was try to look cool for the cameras. I think Flanagan should've ended up with that girl with CF who came to visit him, ha.