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Class Conflict, 8 November 2003
Author: earl128

Many people seem to miss exactly why the sexual scenes were so brutal, and the point of the Jeremy Smart/Sebastian Hawkes character -- they are both related.

Johnny and Jeremy were both misogynistic characters capable of rape and physical brutality - the sexual scenes were brutal to show how cruel these two characters were, and how similar these two characters were - at least behind the bedroom door, or more generally in their relationship to women and humankind. Johnny is the ultimate anti-hero; eventually (or perhaps immediately) you like Johnny despite his obvious problems/inhumanity. Outside of some of the greatest misanthropic one liners in movie history, there is nothing to like about Jeremy. Johnny is lower class, Jeremy is upper class.

Naked follows a theme of Marxism/socialism seen throughout Mike Leigh's work. It is a scathing indictment of modern British life, specifically the class system.

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