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The movie had to be about something very disgusting, that was the point


They did not make this movie to be solely about "a woman blowing a dog". The act itself was just the catalyst / plot device that was required to elicit huge-enough feelings of disgust to have an affect on human relationships, so the aftereffects could be shown. It would be ridiculous to suggest that this movie is trivialising or condoning bestiality, if anyone is weird enough to go and do it after watching it in a silly movie like this then they're pretty *beep*ed up already. It's a MOVIE, not real life by the way...

I can see why they went with the dog thing, it is disgusting, and if they'd chosen something else it would have to have been equally as disgusting or worse for the story to still work. No person or animal suffered permanent damage on set or in the movie. Can anyone here who is so against the choice of act suggest a different idea that would have been acceptable to them and still worked in the story?

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Ahahahaha, No.

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The point of the movie wasn't the long list of sexual revelations, it was everyone's over-reaction to them. It's unfortunate more people are defending the characters' reactions to non-standard sex acts, than questioning this.

If it was just about lesbianism or adultery - which are plot points in the film - it would be preaching to the choir. So, yes, it had to be something that was out-there even to the typical Goldthwaite fan. Whether we think the main characters' actions are wrong is irrelevant. To feel we have to call them disgusting or immoral just to talk about the movie is to condemn the main character and everyone who's ever been in her position. What is this childish need to distance ourselves from the material when it is clear we want to discuss the material? Is it perhaps because we know we'll be judged and harshly? That's the point of the f--king film.


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