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acephalousuniverse posted:What a rollercoaster. I definitely found a lot of it hilarious. I really liked this movie a lot and will probably see it again to get more out of all the math, music, religious and other literary references. Since everyone these days has watched at least some porn: This movie is not porn; it's more accurate to say it is anti-porn because many of the graphic sex scenes are filmed more like gritty documentary (cinema verite, maybe) than idealized art. I think the sex is shown from the addict’s viewpoint of being driven more by need than by what we would consider pleasure. This is a very dark comedy, it starts off like a joke: A nymphomaniac and a virgin bookworm go into a bedroom... and the final scene is the ultimate and inevitable punchline. I don't know if anyone still reads Jerzy Kosinski but the movie reminded me a lot of the tone of his novel Blind Date, although that sexual journey was from a man's point of view. If you like dry, dark humour such as Secretary and Very Bad Things, brace yourself for a long haul and check out Nymphomania. While a lot of people like to complain about Shia, the acting from Gainsbourg and esp. Stellan Skarsgård is fantastic, and the cameos from Uma Thurman, Udo Keir and Willem Dafoe are all great. Binary Logic fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Mar 16, 2014 |
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Another reason I like Nymphomaniac. Due to the subject matter, the storytelling style and the casual pace, this movie had me reflecting back on relationships and some of the women I've known or known about, throughout the years. While I can enjoy big budget action flicks too, it was a nice change to have a movie get me musing about the past in that manner.
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I found the metaphysical conceit of the narrative to be very bookish (hesitate to call it literary). Initially I thought the movie was based on a book because the manner of relating Joe's sexcapades to fishing, to music, to math, etc is exactly how many modern novels are set up. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Trout Fishing in America are the most obvious ones that come to mind....of SCIENCE! posted:It's kind of brilliant, this movie is effectively critic-proof because any negative review can just be dismissed as something something puritans. The sex scenes are so short and many shot in a sort of graphic, cinema verite style and I don't believe anyone would get off from them. There are valid criticisms and complaints that can be made about the movie (questionable casting choices, clunky dialogue, and more) without even mentioning the depiction of sex acts, so I don't agree that "any negative review can just be dismissed as something something puritan". To make this a CineD post, can anyone recommend other similar themed mainstream movies, where sex is used as metaphor or to drive the plot? The ones I can think of are: Secretary Last Tango in Paris Fingered by R. Kern j/k about that last one. Binary Logic fucked around with this message at 14:04 on Mar 22, 2014 |
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