Friday 17 November 2006

Film: Shortbus

What does one say about a film that's chock-a-block full of real, on-screen sex of all varieties, that's also warm and charmingly optimistic? Thankfully it's also sexy, not boring, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, and not at all embarrassing to sit through with friends twenty years older than yourself... - although it might be a bit intense with one's parents!

In a post-911 world, America's youth are struggling to reconcile having rich and meaningful emotional inner lives with a mindless pursuit of consumer capitalism; the twin tower attacks were "the first real event of their lives" and they follow the pull of that feeling to New York. And their instincts pull them together in complicated (and often physical) ways...

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