Everyone Is Grotesque and No One Is Turned On
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Strange, uncanny, and confrontational depictions of sex in film are needed now more than ever.
X (2022) dir. Ti West Here is a controversial belief I hold: there are too many unnecessary sex scenes in movies these days. I think. I’ll admit: I am a yuppie snob and I tend to watch far more old movies than new ones, and I rarely see current high-budget, major studio films unless they are fascinatingly ridiculous or terrible (on a related note, does anyone want to see M3GAN with me this weekend?). But from what I have seen, the sex scene in contemporary American mass-market filmmaking has become a rehearsed, blandly necessary staple that serves no discernible purpose beyond mashing the…
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