Thighs Wide Shut: What Movies Get Wrong About Sex

Eyes Wide ShutBlueThe Wayward CloudStray DogsAngels With Dirty FacesThe GodfatherAuto FocusHogan's HeroesShameHungerFlightDon JonDon Jon's AddictionSharingConfessionsAtonementThis Bitter EarthCasablancaLate MarriageTuesday After ChristmasTuesdayAustin Powers The problem that haunts movies that focus on sex is that bodies photograph better and more easily than souls. And because the people onscreen are strangers whom we do not love, the very act of photographing sex, no matter the intent, implies voyeurism by the artist and an invitation to voyeurism for the audience. As a result, scenes and movies that are about sex, as distinct from scenes and movies about love or about marriage, will always be dancing on the edge of pornography — and that dance either has a tendency to swallow the...

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Nov 1st 2013
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