I heard on the grape vine that thers a spanking scene, true?
I want to watch it but im trying not to watch super distrubing movies when it comes to sex, im cynical enough already. I'm 16, and not easily upset. will it be a bit much or will it be ok? Thanks
Intimacy is a lie we tell ourselves.
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What the hell are you talking about? What point was the movie trying to make, which made it too 'sexually explicit', as you put it?
shareI didn't think the movie was sexually explicit really at all. Just because you see more of Ewan than one normally would does not mean the movie warrented an NC-17. However stupid the rating in my opinion the movie was just boring. Poorly executed and devoid of any sympathetic characters not really worth much in my opinion.
shareNC-17 does not put the film into the class of smut or porn, it is usually the version that is not allowed in theaters. Look at Last Tango. Given an NC-17 and oscar nominated.
I agree that the ratings system is quite a load of bs. Forcing directors to censor themselves to get a rating aprroved for national release. Praise to the indie directors who challenge them.
I agree that the movie is too explicit for the point I think it's making: that Adam sinned. It seemed like an excuse for too many graphic scenes. There were other good aspects to the film, so it's not a total waste of time.
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I don't see how it's "explicit" but just realistic. Explicit would be pornography, wouldn't it? Most of the time, they are even fully clothed!
shareThe reason for the sex scenes being in the film and the novel is because Trocchi was being published in an erotic/porno magazine at the time.
They agreed to print his story on the condition that he included a sex scene every 7 pages, or something equally ridiculous.
Trocchi agreed to this but proceeded to write the most grimy, seedy, and emotionless sex scenes he could think of so that whilst he was fulfilling the terms of the contract, he was not giving the readership the sexy, easy, masturbation material that they and the magazine expected.
Thus, the fly on Swinton's tit post-coitus, sex on the gritty, muddy ground, McGregor pouring custard on the abused Mortimer, etc. etc.
The sex scenes are necessarily explicit in this way to enforce Trocchi's anger at the circumstances he was forced to write under. Trocchi managed to retain his artistic integrity whilst challenging the viewer/reader to find such overtly repulsive and violent images erotic.
Thanks for that detailed interpration of this movie as I was pissed off at the end because I felt like it was a waste of film.
And so it goes....
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It was an abomination. Stinking filth.
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