The Father is Nothing

This film uses a scene between a woman and an FTM transsexual to mobilise Gilles Deleuzess work on masochism as explored in his book Coldness and Cruelty Critical of all manifestations of fascism the films visuals and sound set up a tension between two libidinal economies that of fascism the super father where the father is everything and the world of the masochist where the mother is everything and the father is nothing