![]() What intimacy looks like and how its experience is on display in Fishbowl Wives. It’s not there to shock and awe, but to showcase the moments where bridges are burned and built between moments in time and characters. ![]() The use of eroticism as a storytelling tool is the power of the series. Eroticism breaks down relationships, or it builds them up in this series by casting a difference between the physical nature of the act the emotional intimacy it can create. Sex done out of lust is portrayed drastically different than that done out of love. ![]() The eroticism of the series works to build out the narrative. When he accepts her for who she is, Sakura is unable to hold back the feelings she has kept buried inside and crosses a line that changes her life forever.įishbowl Wives is erotic first, opening with a long sex scene before it cruises into a somber world of appearances. One day, the “goldfish” leads to an opportunity where she meets a man. Owned by someone and stuck looking out to a space she can never go. As Sakura’s sense of helplessness grows, she soon identifies with her “goldfish” in its bowl. But instead of happiness, she finds herself trapped in a cycle of spite and abuse. Her life, or at least its facade, has a beautiful sheen and one that she should be happy with. Now a housewife, she appears to have everything any woman could want. Living on the top floor of a high-rise condo building overlooking an urban area with a traditional atmosphere, Sakura Hiraga (Ryoko Shinohara) gives up on her dreams after an accident and marries a beauty salon owner. A look at intimate affairs, Fishbowl Wives, takes the concept of cheating and expands on the push and pull factors, the deep sadness, and the loneliness in the lives of women struggling to hold onto themselves. It’s about the kind of intimacy and romance that could be seen as coming from lust and selfishness but comes from a place more somber. Now, the series isn’t about pure romantic love and grand confessions. A Netflix original series based on Kurosawa R’s manga, Kingyozuma, the series stars Ryoko Shinohara, Takanori Iwata, Masanobu Ando, and Kyoko Hasegawa. This is the space that F ishbowl Wives fills with its intimate and somber narrative. When it comes to series about romance, it’s not too often we get to see them focused on the cracks in love and the infidelity it can breed. Content Warning: Fishbowl Wives and this Review Contain Discussion of Domestic Violence
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