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Thursday, August 20, 2009
only unhappy people are bad dancers @ 2:40 PM
only unhappy people are bad dancers - LisaLast night I watched the British movie 9 Songs (2004). I was intrigued by the description I read. 9 Songs is a modern love story and the title is derived from the nine songs that are played throughout the movie. I'm always interested in movies that are based around a theme, so I downloaded and sat down to watch.
9 Songs is a soft core porn movie. It's actually currently the most sexually explicit mainstream film. I'm not going to lie. In the ratings, I saw "Sexually Explicit" which was an incentive to my downloading the movie. A British movie about a dysfunctional relationship? Set to dirty rock music? AND it's sexually explicit? SURE WHY NOT?
I wasn't prepared for how sexually explicit it was. The whole movie was set up like this: voice over, sex scene, 3 minute shot of a band playing, sex scene, voice over, sex scene, band. Repeat.
The movie itself felt very intimate. There were only two characters. The voice over was Matt's, the male character. The only scenes which didn't involve the two actors were the ones which involved the live bands (which included The Dandy Warhols, a personal favorite, Franz Ferdinand, The Von Bondies, Super Furry Animals, etc).
The sex scenes in the movie were real. They showed penetration, fellatio, cunnilingus, all very graphic sex scenes. The relationship? Was an afterthought. The female character, Lisa, was young, a bit immature and had a slight drug habit. The male character, Matt, was a bit older and a little more emotionally involved in the relationship. I didn't really understand what made the two stay together, except for the sex.
According to IMDB, this was the first explicit sex film to receive a certificate in Ireland and France. This is also the only UK film in which a male actor is shown ejaculating.
I remember in my Human Sexuality college class, the professor (a hotter version of Reese Witherspoon), told us about good porn versus bad porn. She told us about a female porn producer who made women-friendly porn. Porn with a plot that had women doing non-degrading sexual acts. This wasn't produced by that woman, but as I watched it, I realized that if porn was made like this, I wouldn't mind watching more. I've seen degrading porn (thanks to my male friends) and while it's a bit voyeuristic, it kind of leaves you with an empty feeling afterward. Kind of like really bad sex. You feel a bit dirty, like you need to take a shower. This movie didn't leave that impression. I felt like I'd just watched a normal, natural deterioration of a relationship.
Recommended to: Women and music lovers
9 Songs is a soft core porn movie. It's actually currently the most sexually explicit mainstream film. I'm not going to lie. In the ratings, I saw "Sexually Explicit" which was an incentive to my downloading the movie. A British movie about a dysfunctional relationship? Set to dirty rock music? AND it's sexually explicit? SURE WHY NOT?
I wasn't prepared for how sexually explicit it was. The whole movie was set up like this: voice over, sex scene, 3 minute shot of a band playing, sex scene, voice over, sex scene, band. Repeat.
The movie itself felt very intimate. There were only two characters. The voice over was Matt's, the male character. The only scenes which didn't involve the two actors were the ones which involved the live bands (which included The Dandy Warhols, a personal favorite, Franz Ferdinand, The Von Bondies, Super Furry Animals, etc).
The sex scenes in the movie were real. They showed penetration, fellatio, cunnilingus, all very graphic sex scenes. The relationship? Was an afterthought. The female character, Lisa, was young, a bit immature and had a slight drug habit. The male character, Matt, was a bit older and a little more emotionally involved in the relationship. I didn't really understand what made the two stay together, except for the sex.
According to IMDB, this was the first explicit sex film to receive a certificate in Ireland and France. This is also the only UK film in which a male actor is shown ejaculating.
I remember in my Human Sexuality college class, the professor (a hotter version of Reese Witherspoon), told us about good porn versus bad porn. She told us about a female porn producer who made women-friendly porn. Porn with a plot that had women doing non-degrading sexual acts. This wasn't produced by that woman, but as I watched it, I realized that if porn was made like this, I wouldn't mind watching more. I've seen degrading porn (thanks to my male friends) and while it's a bit voyeuristic, it kind of leaves you with an empty feeling afterward. Kind of like really bad sex. You feel a bit dirty, like you need to take a shower. This movie didn't leave that impression. I felt like I'd just watched a normal, natural deterioration of a relationship.
Recommended to: Women and music lovers
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