This movie is so lame. If anyone thinks any of this has anything to do with sex they don't know what they are missing. Really it's beyond bad even if it does have some nice looking people who have no idea what they are supposed to do.
shareby - mdoliner >> This movie is so lame. If anyone thinks any of this has anything to do with sex they don't know what they are missing. Really it's beyond bad even if it does have some nice looking people who have no idea what they are supposed to do.>>
i agree with everything the above poster said. mdoliner used "lame" and i used "inane" to describe this film by self-indulgent "art film" director, Alan Rudolph. What a ruse this guy has played on the viewing public for years. His films (that i've seen) are self-indulgent, ad-libbed borefests.
On the positive side, the set/design director succeeded to make this film tolerable to watch, if not to listen to. The 1920s sets and stylized art design are a treat to view. Several talented and well-known actors had roles in this silly - yes, silly! - film about a group of men having a dialog about sex. No one came off well - i kept thinking, why did they do this to themselves? It was not what they did, the film per se doesn't work. Meryl Streep couldn't pull off this crap. If it were a play (and the script is written as if it were) the audience would walk out - except for all the voyeurs. For anyone over 25, the sex talk is "old hat," and often offensive.
This movie is a depiction of late 1920's confrontation of sexual ideology. The push and pull of Romanticism versus Libertinism. If you cannot appreciate it for it's fictional account of historic dogmas, and the story of their progression of over-coming them, then I cannot see how you could possibly appreciate our CURRENT understanding of sex within society. One must not just "know" what old hat is, but rather where it came from. As you can't have a new hat without it's predecessor. As for the acting, Nick Nolte was brilliant, as was Terrence Howard. And the entire portrayal of Bohemian subculture near the upper-class around the time period was quite on. It was the purveyance of this type of academic atmosphere that lead to the studies of people like Kinsey... And furthermore, the one day founding of your, "new hat," of fashionable detail through which you gaze and critique films like this.
sharegrifterZed, your user-name doesn't reflect your astute articulation. i agree with what you said, i just thought the production was inferior and self-indulgent. This is not the actors' fault but the director's.
shareYes, the setting was good, but nothing very interesting is said or done. I fell asleep twice trying to watch it.
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