Representation of Sexuality

This clip starts with two women in a room, one women is holding a dress up against the other and they are both admiring how the dress looks on the women in the mirror. There is a narrator speaking over the clip, this narrator explains how she thinks the women with the dress is 'beautiful'. This represents sexuality because the women appears to be admiring the women holding the dress and then the narrator also describes her as beautiful so from this we may assume that this women is homosexual.  the narrator then continues to speak of this women in a very loving tone which could suggest that she is fond of who she is speaking of.

The next scene shows the two women in bed, the women who's voice is used from the narrators point of view is sitting up and looking at the other women sleeping with a very loving facial expression, the shot used during this is a long shot to show almost all of the women's body. The women then moves her hand slightly above the women's body from her chest down to her legs, this would represent sexuality because it may show how the women has a lust for the other. The music playing in this scene is very typical of an older period in time however from the tone we can tell that this is a very positive and romantic scene.

The next scene then shows the women sleeping again however they are now outside and the other women is sat under an umbrella painting, There is now a third character in this scene which is a man. There are a few shot reverse shot, shots to show the facial expressions of all of the actors and this is representational of sexuality because it gives us the idea that something is unusual due to the transaction of looks they give each other. Dialogue is then used to show how the man and the women should be in love, the man speaks in a very intimidating way during this conversation. There is then a sequence of close-ups of the sleeping women's body, we know that these are from Maud's point of view due to the angle, this represents sexuality because Maud is looking at areas of the women's body. Because of this, the man realises how Maud feels for the women and uses this to blackmail her, this represents sexuality because by a few looks he can see how Maud feels for the other women.

The man then covers Maud's mouth and drags her away so they can talk. The man is being very threatening and blackmails Maud that he will keep her secret if she appears to love him and also marries him, we then see that se agrees by letting him kiss her hand. This represents sexuality because we learn that he is heterosexual and wants her to love him.

The next scene then shows the other women removing her dress and again we can see that Maud is admiring her however once they climb into bed Maud is covering her mouth slightly and looks slightly guilty.

This whole clip is representational of sexuality because throughout this clip we can see that Maud is in love with the other women and towards the end we also learn that the man is in love with Maud, this is therefore a love triangle which is represented through the clip.