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Adele: A Rapacious Young Women

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The protagonist of the film, Adele, is rapacious young women, particularly when it comes to food and so it strikes the viewer as odd when that carnal appetite of hers is scarce in the two lengthy scenes where she and her lover, Emma, are making love. "You're voracious," Emma points out as the viewer is subjected to an intimately close shot of Adele taking bite after bite of her food in a scene from the film. The carefully arranged placement of the women's bodies as they engage in sex seems too composed, as their bodies angle towards the viewer despite being tangled up in one another. This brings the argument towards a specific line in Berger's "Ways of Seeing", where he discusses Adam and Eve becoming aware of their own and each other's nakedness

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