American here. Just to give a background I went into this movie liking Asia as an actress so I'm biased that way, and also I've never seen another movie by this director, who has supposedly done much more graphic stuff. Other than my American (or southern californian) phobia of body hair, I didn't find any of the scenes to be that graphic, fake, or exploitative. Actually, there was one scene I felt was exploitative when the two women kiss because it seemed to have nothing whatsoever to do with the plot.
On the contrary I felt like all of the sex scenes were well placed and pretty integral to the plot, even (if not especially) the scene when the daughter dies. LIke with any art, maybe people need to see more stuff like bad porn with bad sex scenes to really understand what a good one looks like. IMO these were well done. I thought the miscarriage scene and the one where she licks Ryno's wound were a tad bit Gothic but again, I think they added to my understanding of the characters. Not just there to shock or just to be there. As an opera singer all I kept thinking while watching it was this would make a fabulous opera!
I'm so glad someone else thinks Asia had a boob job as well. I used to think we were the same cup size about, then I saw this and her boobs were all big and flopping around, which pissed me off. I would have sworn she was a B and suddenly she's like a C and a half or D even, what's that about?
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