A while back I was watching a movie directed by Sean Baker called “Starlet”.
Starlet is a brilliant movie that deals with cross -generational friendship and I was very pleased with the film until all of the sudden this explicit sex scene comes up. By explicit I mean pornographic,as we get to see scenes of sexual penetration. I asked myself why would a director ruin such a beautiful film with what is in my opinion just plain bad taste. Baker in an interview stated that he wanted a Cinéma vérité vibe,but it looks more like a teenage prank for me. I'm not trying to make a moral or a bigoted statement,but I believe that artistically speaking there is no need to show genital close ups of sex scenes (or close ups of toilet scenes) in a film ,unless you are looking for juvenile shock value.
We're not in the 1950's anymore ,pornography nowadays (which I have absolutely nothing against) is well accepted and easily available,so there is no need to mix it with mainstream movies to portray some kind of intellectual rebelliousness towards society.
Furthermore ,this year the Palm D'or at the Caannes film festival was won by a movie called “Blue is the warmest color”,and according to Imdb the audience was reportedly 'shocked beyond belief' by the graphic sex scenes that took place throughout the course of the movie.
More than shocked I would have been bored to tears,but that's just me.......
Starlet is a brilliant movie that deals with cross -generational friendship and I was very pleased with the film until all of the sudden this explicit sex scene comes up. By explicit I mean pornographic,as we get to see scenes of sexual penetration. I asked myself why would a director ruin such a beautiful film with what is in my opinion just plain bad taste. Baker in an interview stated that he wanted a Cinéma vérité vibe,but it looks more like a teenage prank for me. I'm not trying to make a moral or a bigoted statement,but I believe that artistically speaking there is no need to show genital close ups of sex scenes (or close ups of toilet scenes) in a film ,unless you are looking for juvenile shock value.
We're not in the 1950's anymore ,pornography nowadays (which I have absolutely nothing against) is well accepted and easily available,so there is no need to mix it with mainstream movies to portray some kind of intellectual rebelliousness towards society.
Furthermore ,this year the Palm D'or at the Caannes film festival was won by a movie called “Blue is the warmest color”,and according to Imdb the audience was reportedly 'shocked beyond belief' by the graphic sex scenes that took place throughout the course of the movie.
More than shocked I would have been bored to tears,but that's just me.......