Jun. 9th, 2007 09:07 pm
Let's talk about sex
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monshu and I finally got around to watching Shortbus and we mostly liked it, even if we didn't find it entirely successful or fully satisfying. I remember complaining more than once that I wish there were more movies like this, ones which plant a flag in that vast territory between porn and mainstream movies. It's immensely refreshing to see a sex scene where one participant politely asks another to change his hand position. This is the sort of thing that never appears in typical mainstream films or hardcore films because they only deal in sex fantasies and would only show up in a "serious" move as a sign of Something Wrong.
On the minus side, I was kind of taken aback to see such an "only in NYC" attitude from Texas boy John Cameron Mitchell, since there wasn't a hint of that in Hedwig. As I explained tomonshu, it's annoying, but so common that over the years I've learned how to tune it out. And while there's nothing wrong with a celebratory ending, I was a bit more interested in what happens to these people when they leave the rarefied atmosphere of a sex club. That probably has something to do with the fact that my sex club days are behind me and now I'm more about integrating that experience into (pace Severin) my real life.
monshu and I finally got around to watching Shortbus and we mostly liked it, even if we didn't find it entirely successful or fully satisfying. I remember complaining more than once that I wish there were more movies like this, ones which plant a flag in that vast territory between porn and mainstream movies. It's immensely refreshing to see a sex scene where one participant politely asks another to change his hand position. This is the sort of thing that never appears in typical mainstream films or hardcore films because they only deal in sex fantasies and would only show up in a "serious" move as a sign of Something Wrong.On the minus side, I was kind of taken aback to see such an "only in NYC" attitude from Texas boy John Cameron Mitchell, since there wasn't a hint of that in Hedwig. As I explained to
monshu, it's annoying, but so common that over the years I've learned how to tune it out. And while there's nothing wrong with a celebratory ending, I was a bit more interested in what happens to these people when they leave the rarefied atmosphere of a sex club. That probably has something to do with the fact that my sex club days are behind me and now I'm more about integrating that experience into (pace Severin) my real life.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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I agree with everything you say.
Remember there was one morning (October 20, 2006 to be exact) when you were standing at the bus stop at Clark & Wellington and I walked by you and I think you sort of nudged me or something. Well I was in such a hurry to get to the very first public Chicago showing of Shortbus at the Landmark Century City Plaza Mall movie theater.
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