can someone clarify?


I watched a breif moment of this movie and turned it off because it looked creepy. It was the scene in which the actress was crying in bed and the actor started to penetrate her. It looked like rape to me which was really disturbing. How is this supposed to be a comedy? Could someone please clarify what happens?

Thanks in advance.

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What you saw is part of the climax. It is not rape, she is playing a scene. The moment in the scene has been built up over the movie, as the character is losing her virginity.

The movie is not comedy at all, really. Maybe dark comedy at best.

Hope that clarifies a little for you.

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Yes, that's the last five minutes of the movie. If you watch the whole thing, you will understand it. Its not creepy, it's dark. Watch it from beginning to end, and the climax of the movie will make more sense to you.

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Why not just watch the movie? Why ask us what happened? Doesn't asking us take all the fun out of seeing a movie?

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Obviously the OP didn't want to watch the whole movie because it didn't seem like their type of movie. They simply had a question, which is what this board is for. Why did you reply? Why not just ignore it?

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This is America and I have a right to free speech. Also I don't like it when people ruin a movie for me and I would rather not ruin it for them. Everyone enjoy the movies!

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You have no "right" or guarantee to free speech here. You can be barred from this Web site by its moderator. You can still be held accountable for libel here. You don't have the right to go into a movie theater and yell, "Fire!" Freedom of speech as defined by the First Amendment is one of the most overused and abused of all our Bill of Rights.

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but is it wrong to shout "FIRE" on a crowded message board?

"Write a wise saying and your name will live forever."
--Anonymous

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I don't understand why people argue in message boards. But aside from that, you're question does make sense. It's not the kind of movie for people who:

1)Don't usually get or like foreign films, especially French ones

2)Like to be entertained by a film (I'm not gonna lie, it's a hard film to watch)

The scene you're talking about is actually a scene from one of the director's other movies. I haven't seen the movie itself, but I've seen the scene. The boy is trying to convince the girl to have anal sex with him so that he can get laid, but she can still call herself a virgin.

Like I said, it's not an easy film to sit through. It's just one of those ones that you have to want to watch in order to watch, ya know? If you do want a good foreign film that might be more interesting, try Who Killed Bambi? I liked it.

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I just watched this movie yesterday for the first time in its entirety. The scene is indeed from the movie.

I was actually surprised that it was almost made to appear that she was being anally "devirginized" against her will. In the movie, he (the actor) told her (the actress) that alot of girls "do it from behind" so they can have sex but "it won't count". The entire movie plays up the idea that they will be together for the "first time" and she is hesitate and and reluctant, but yet she wants it. The scenes leading up to it, with the director and her assistant in the bedroom set before that, explain it quite well. Also, he is wearing a prostectec (fake) penis, so the director reassures the girl that the only thing that will touch her is actually plastic.

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This is a movie about the making of a movie. So you have this movie, "Sex is Comedy", but it's about the making of another of Briellat's films, "Fat Girl". What you are watching there is a scene from "Fat Girl". The boy and the girl are both acting other parts. Nothing is happening to the actress at all, she is *acting*. And as others have said, in the film-within-the-film, it's a complex scene where she wants it but she feels ashamed - it is in no way rape even in the film-within-the-film. Watch "Fat Girl" to understand that scene - she initiates everything, inviting him into her bedroom at night and all.

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This director seems very brave. I wonder how the actors from Fat Girl feel about their foibles being portrayed in this film. Possibly they might be rather annoyed and refuse to work with this director again? And might not every other actor refuse to work with her because of the possibility that she might subsequently make a movie about them? Also wonder about the actors in this film who apparently don't mind making fellow actors look bad -- no professional solidarity? All of this might add up to straitened work possibilities for all involved.

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