Why didn't they have sex?
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Because back then people didn't have sex. Derr.
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Probably because in real life, they didn't, and since authenticity of the story was very important to JCampion, she didn't choose to "Hollywoodize" her script to appeal to the "dumbing down" of the typical American film expections. Besides, two people don't have to actually "do it" in order for a film to be sensual. Just pay attention to how the camera zooms in the way Keats/Brawne interlock their hands in the scene where he recites "her poem, 'Bright Star'" to her, as well as the scene where she's lying on her bed after returning from the first kiss by the pond on the Heath and how the breeze wafts her dress up to her waist. The metaphorical context of the cinematography supports the fact that leaving some things to the viewers' imagination can most frequently be far more sensual than the tacky sexual "bare nothing" [pardon the pun] which too many superficial American-film goers seem to want to judge the quality of any film on, that and gratuitious violence.
shareThe thing is if they didn't have sex, the girl is crazy and obssesive about the guy and I hate that. Having sex could explain such love, but not having sex only says she is so sexually frustrated that she becomes obssesive about him.
shareit went both ways. she's obsessed w/ him and he sticks to some lofty morality that appears romantic and chivalrous but can be interpreted as paternalistic in some ways (though I wouldn't necessarily). sometimes i do like the idea of love transcendent and not bound by 'this mortal coil' or whatever... keats died a virgin, right?
shareI read 3 biographies on Keats. One didn't really discuss whether he was a virgin but the other two thought he may have had sex on the Isle of Wight and possibly contracted syphilis in 1817 when he visited Benjamin Bailey at Oxford. Shortly after he was treating himself with mercury which was commonly used to treat syphilis. No-one knows for sure but some of his letters hint at sexual experience.
shareThe hero was so sickly and fragile that he was more likely to have suffered a myocardial infarction before summoning up the energy for copulation.
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