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(lilting music)

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(woman giggling)

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- [Man] You're the most
exasperating girl I've ever met.

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- [Woman] We not meet.
I no talk to strangers.

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(camera roll hissing)

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- [Woman] Mm-hmm. It's just a little mole.

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- [Sally] It's ugly.

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- [Woman] Everyone has a scar, silly,

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or a birthmark like that.

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- [Sally] I hate it. It's black and ugly.

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- [Woman] Don't talk about it anymore.

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(static hissing)

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(woman breathing heavily)

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(air whooshing)

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(typewriter clacking)

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(lively upbeat music)

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- [Reporter] Indeed.

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A feminist critic by contrast

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aims it seizing authority from men,

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at the same time that it seeks

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to redefine traditional models,

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like the ethnographic model of authority,

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power, and hierarchy.

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Given the current state of affairs.

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- [Man] Your skin's very
smooth and the hair,

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so silky and black.

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(cheerful music)

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- [Interviewee] He was just a guy,

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an American who took years
off from his business job

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to try to be an artist.

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So he goes to Hong Kong.

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- [Interviewer] How does he meet Susie?

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- [Interviewee] She's a Chinese prostitute

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who he first thought was a rich virgin.

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Anyway, she becomes his model.

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- [Interviwer] Do they fall in love?

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- [Interviewee] Of course.

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- [Woman] Tell me, Sally,

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when did you first become aware of it?

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Its presence, that is.

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- [Sally] When my breath started to go.

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- [Woman] And how did you feel about that?

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- [Sally] About what, the growing?

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- [Woman] No. The fact that
you had this, this blemish.

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- [Sally] Oh, like I had to hide it.

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It's the first thing I see
when I look in the mirror.

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- [Woman] Sally, and what did he say?

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- [Sally] He said he liked
it, still shiny and black.

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- [Woman] What else?

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- [Sally] I don't know, that
I look different, I guess.

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- [Woman] Different from what?

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(suspenseful music)

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(typewriter clacking)

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(woman singing gently)

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- [Narrator] Skin, as the key signifier

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of cultural and racial
difference in the stereotype,

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is the most visible of fetishes.

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Recognizes common knowledge
in a range of cultural,

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political, and historical discusses,

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and plays a part in the racial drama

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that is enacted every day
in colonial societies.

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- [Woman] Do you really
think she loves him?

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- [Woman 2] I guess so. Just watch.

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- [Woman] Why do you
like the movie so much?

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- You want to know what song say?

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You show pictures to English girl.

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She knows somebody (indistinct)

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- No.

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Yes, yes. I know.

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- [Sally] It's always been there,

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ever since I was a little girl

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- Long time.

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- [Narrator] Secondly, it may
be said that sexual practice

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is closely linked to the good object.

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- [Man] Were you born with it?

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Can I see how it feels?

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- [Sally] Don't touch it, please.

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- [Woman] Have you considered
surgical methods of removal?

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- Take that terrible dress off.

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- This expensive dress.
- I don't care what it costs,

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you look like a cheap
European streetwalker.

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- You shut up!

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(intense music)

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- Why don't you put a
ring in your nose too?

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- Leave me alone,

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- [Woman] It's like a
small bummer on your skin.

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So small, I can barely see it.

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- It's my expensive dress, (indistinct).

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- [Narrator] It is the prop
that makes the whole of it

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desirable and lovable.

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(soft music)

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- You haven't the faintest idea of what,

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Little hazardous for kissing.

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- Well, you'll tilt head to one side

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and I tilt head to other.

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(romantic music)

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- Clever these Chinese.

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- Now I tilt to the other side.

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(romantic music)

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(voices mumbling)

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(t.v. static buzzing)

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(suspenseful music)

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- [Woman] How could we
not have any expectations

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of face to face encounter,

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based not on first impressions,
a natural occurrence

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but a preexisting order of things.

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Finished,

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closed,

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defined.

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(typewriter clacking)

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They will always pose the problem.

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- [Narrator] They'll
always pose the problem

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is that between the pre
constitute and the natural.

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- [Woman] Between the pre
constitute, natural colors

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- [Woman 2] the pre constitute

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of natural colors of black and white.

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(upbeat music)

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(water running)

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(static buzzing)

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(typewriter clacking)

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(woman moaning)

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- [Woman] Does it make a difference?

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- [Sally] I feel it growing.

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It gets bigger and darker every day.

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(voices mumbling)

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(static buzzing)

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(people cheering)

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- [Woman] Good object.

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Which object?

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(camera roll running)

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(glass falling)

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(white noise buzzing)

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(water running)

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(white noise buzzing)

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(hairdrier blowing)

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(woman humming)

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(radio cutting)

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(voices cutting)

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(music box playing)

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(cheerful music)

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(woman humming)