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Excessive provincialism of fiilm summed up by headline we see...


... outside a newsagents: 'MP Caught in Strip Club!'

So what???

Yes; I know in real life the tabloids might make a fuss, but the headline is more likely to be: 'MP in Sex Shame', or something like that.

The scenario was playing to the perception of laughably cliched 'Middle England Outrage!', right the way through. The aged may have no wish to join the ranks of the sex industry, but I bet most who were desperate for money would not be so comically shocked as Maggie was, in the beginning. Then you have the stereotypical club boss, behaving as if he's been transported straight from a Grand Theft Auto video game... "I bet you can't even say *bleep*!" Why is it the automatic and patronising assumption that if someone is old, then they're entirely innocent in the ways of sex?!

... because the status quo is afraid of sex; afraid of dealing with the subject in a mature manner, so it looks upon facile films like this one as being 'daring'... This is the equivalent of giggling behind your hands, seaside postcard sauciness, rather than having an open and frank discussion.

If you want to watch a mature film about exploitation and sacrifice, watch "Breaking the Waves" - not this bandwagon-jumping stunt exercise...






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I agree. It adopted a sort of straw man approach in making its points. BtW puts this to shame. Ironically, both films seem set in the same era, despite BtW taking place in the rural '70s Scotland of Trier's imagination and IP being set in contemporary Soho and the commuter-belt.

Oh whisky, leave me alone.

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