"Emmmanuelle" tells the story of a young French diplomats wife in Thailand, getting introduced into alternative sexual lifestyles and thereby questioning the classic model of relationship and marriage she once had known.
You can't say that there is no story at all. Of course you can see kind of a development from the beginning of the movie towards the end. Nevertheless most of the characters just remain too flat to impress and all in all the plot can be summarized in two or three sentences.
I don't know in how far the idea of open relationships and marriages can be called revolutionary in that time, but I do think that the aura of the forbidden helped making this movie big. As for the message, everyone has his own idea of sexuality and erotic and for some, as we know, open models serve well. Still, rape and lacking consent are surely not a part of them and just show that some of the characters here are rather depicted as sociopaths than as people with differing sexual preferences.
You can't say that there is no story at all. Of course you can see kind of a development from the beginning of the movie towards the end. Nevertheless most of the characters just remain too flat to impress and all in all the plot can be summarized in two or three sentences.
I don't know in how far the idea of open relationships and marriages can be called revolutionary in that time, but I do think that the aura of the forbidden helped making this movie big. As for the message, everyone has his own idea of sexuality and erotic and for some, as we know, open models serve well. Still, rape and lacking consent are surely not a part of them and just show that some of the characters here are rather depicted as sociopaths than as people with differing sexual preferences.