Hey folks, Harry here... It really is amazing to me how consistently uptight some folks in the United States are regarding sex in any sort of public manner can be. I mean Roger Avary was getting Death Threats from folks yesterday via email due to that poster. WHAT THE HELL? They are STUFFED ANIMALS. The film is about LOSS OF INNOCENCE and that poster couldn't express that better. Meanwhile, a fantastic near brilliant film SEX & LUCIA is banned from advertising in Seattle due to a rather frank sex scene between two amazingly developed characters. How can people get this crazy? Throughout Seattle I'd bet there's no less than a 100 places to purchase and/or rent vacuous hardcore pornography with zero emotional connection, zero depth (other than the places the actors hit)... AND THEN... you have a movie like this, that DARES to be frank, real, lyrical, beautiful, emotionally resonant and powerfully dramatic. That has tons more on its mind than the mere act of copulation, and some asses in Seattle deprive their audience of the possibility of hearing about this film? HOW THE HELL DOES THIS SHIT HAPPEN IN 2002 AMERICA?
Hi Harry,
Firstly, thanks for the Rules Of Attraction poster. Hilarious! I can't believe the amount of nastiness that your comments have generated. I use "Skullfuck" as a figure of speech all the time. Maybe you should move to the UK where people generally have a firmer grasp on the concepts of irony and sarcasm. Anyway. Empire Online have posted up this article about Sex And Lucia. Check it out at EMPIRE ONLINE. I'd love to hear what AICN thinks of this. I just don't understand the whole American FEAR of sex! You produce so much of the world's hardcore porn and your adverts use sex to sell everything from cars to cornflakes and yet a motion picture recommended for adults only frankly depicting the sexual relationship between two consenting adults is still so taboo.
It's OK to drop bombs on families in Afghanistan and Iraq but isn't OK to watch two people fucking? Go figure!
Cheers,
jerome
