neonflux
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Shortbus! Shortbus! See this film if you can!
If you have a chance to see the film Shortbus , do so - even if you have to travel 100 miles (it likely will NOT find distribution in many areas of the country).
By John Camerron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch - a fellow El Pasoan, btw), it is now my favorite fictional narrative film about sex from any country. It follows the lives and loves of a number of New Yorkers who come together at a polysexual, poly-gender, poly-desirous, woman-respecting sex club. Won't say more about plot because there are so many delightful surprises along the way.
Mitchell began casting the film 3 years ago - worked with the actors over a couple of years; together he and the cast developed the script together, probably necessary to produce a film in which the sex is real rather than simulated and yet completely natural (actors have never been involved in porn, as far as I know).
It is the first film I've ever seen to treat sex seriously without making the characters suffer for following their desires. Deeply human and loving, it is an exhuberant celebration of the transformative possibilities/nature of sexual intimacy. It includes the hottest 3-way between men that I've ever seen. Also contains tremendous humor, not of the slapstick or cheap comment variety, but rather full of the kind of humor that grows naturally out of the characters' situations... And Justin Bond, as the owner of the sex club, is as always, fabulous!
Neon
If you have a chance to see the film Shortbus , do so - even if you have to travel 100 miles (it likely will NOT find distribution in many areas of the country).
By John Camerron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch - a fellow El Pasoan, btw), it is now my favorite fictional narrative film about sex from any country. It follows the lives and loves of a number of New Yorkers who come together at a polysexual, poly-gender, poly-desirous, woman-respecting sex club. Won't say more about plot because there are so many delightful surprises along the way.
Mitchell began casting the film 3 years ago - worked with the actors over a couple of years; together he and the cast developed the script together, probably necessary to produce a film in which the sex is real rather than simulated and yet completely natural (actors have never been involved in porn, as far as I know).
It is the first film I've ever seen to treat sex seriously without making the characters suffer for following their desires. Deeply human and loving, it is an exhuberant celebration of the transformative possibilities/nature of sexual intimacy. It includes the hottest 3-way between men that I've ever seen. Also contains tremendous humor, not of the slapstick or cheap comment variety, but rather full of the kind of humor that grows naturally out of the characters' situations... And Justin Bond, as the owner of the sex club, is as always, fabulous!

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