tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564277570960354470.post3610614879415793405..comments2024-03-04T03:28:33.591-05:00Comments on Tips from Chip: Steve’s Selections #11 – Auto Focus (2002)Chip Laryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564277570960354470.post-59623290923574185762015-11-10T21:54:31.262-05:002015-11-10T21:54:31.262-05:00Thanks.
This may disappoint you, but I don't ...Thanks.<br /><br />This may disappoint you, but I don't believe in sex addiction. Everybody likes sex. We're supposed to otherwise our species would have died out a long time ago. Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564277570960354470.post-56566630321870649782015-11-10T15:02:48.678-05:002015-11-10T15:02:48.678-05:00Love review Chip, as usual. I really enjoyed this ...Love review Chip, as usual. I really enjoyed this film. It was definitely underrated. It was a very interesting take on a sex addiction. It seems like in 2002 sex addiction still wasn't widely accepted as an addiction so in some ways this film was ahead of its time. msmariahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15486729990673366769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564277570960354470.post-18393381099065378122015-11-09T16:35:48.892-05:002015-11-09T16:35:48.892-05:00Dafoe is usually "menacing creepy", some...Dafoe is usually "menacing creepy", sometimes even without trying, but in this one he's more "needy creepy", so he did impress me.<br /><br />I agree that the Oscars shy away from characters who enjoy sex. I went back through the nominees for Actor and Actress back to 2000 and none of them really played a role like that. Geoffrey Rush in Quills played the Marquis de Sade, but the movie is about censorship and freedom of expression, not sex. Peter O'Toole plays a "dirty old man" in Venus, but not one anyone has to worry about. DiCaprio's character in The Wolf of Wall Street may be the most amoral one I could find, but even then it was much more about the money and drugs than it was about sex.<br /><br />As for the women, Jennifer Lawrence's character is referred to as a "slut" many times in Silver Linings Playbook but she never actually does anything in the movie and she's "trying to get better". Joan Allen's character in The Candidate has to defend herself for appearing on video having sex, but the movie completely wipes that away. Charlize Theron in Monster is a prostitute, but she certainly does not enjoy having sex with the johns. Diane Lane in Unfaithful may come the closest since she has hot sex while cheating on her husband, but even there she learns An Important Lesson.Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564277570960354470.post-57250391216020055592015-11-09T15:09:23.425-05:002015-11-09T15:09:23.425-05:00For me, this is more or less a character study of ...For me, this is more or less a character study of a couple of significantly flawed individuals. While Crane's descent into a bizarre sexual addiction is fictionalized here, I think there's some truth underlying that version of the narrative. I remember Crane's murder as well, and then the weird allegations that came out afterward, and how odd that seemed compared to the guy we saw on television.<br /><br />I like Dafoe in this a lot. Dafoe has always been able to do creepy well, and here it's no less creepy than he often is, but it's of a different sort, or at least focused in a different way. <br /><br />Both Kinnear and Dafoe could have been considered for Oscars in a less prudish world. For as much as Hollywood likes to show and talk about sex, it's remarkably unwilling to reward it much come Oscar time. SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.com