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PLOT, SCHMOT, IT'S THE SKIN THAT REELS THEM IN: ATOM EGOYAN IS DISTRAUGHT
The Toronto Star
September 22, 2005 Thursday
His latest movie includes a scene depicting non-traditional sex,
which is a shifting concept since almost every depiction of sex in
movies these days was once considered non-traditional but now amounts
to the new missionary position.
So let me rephrase that. His latest movie includes a scene depicting
not-yet-traditional sex: two men, one woman, going at it gangbusters,
directed - and acted - with what reviewers salute as scrupulous
attention to detail.
The way things are going, and once the United Church gets involved,
if he had waited until a few years from now and turned out the
identical scene, it would be regarded as a sentimental presentation
of contemporary spousal obligations being fulfilled by a happily
married triple.
For the moment, however, it's a dirty part.
While I have never seen an Atom Egoyan movie, one that has cinema
buffs hyperventilating because there is a dirty part in it, as opposed
to because there is a cri de coeur for a lost Armenian homeland,
tweaked my interest.
It's the only reason I've ever gone to movies.
Yet it turns out to be Atom Egoyan's black capsule.
The Toronto Star
September 22, 2005 Thursday
His latest movie includes a scene depicting non-traditional sex,
which is a shifting concept since almost every depiction of sex in
movies these days was once considered non-traditional but now amounts
to the new missionary position.
So let me rephrase that. His latest movie includes a scene depicting
not-yet-traditional sex: two men, one woman, going at it gangbusters,
directed - and acted - with what reviewers salute as scrupulous
attention to detail.
The way things are going, and once the United Church gets involved,
if he had waited until a few years from now and turned out the
identical scene, it would be regarded as a sentimental presentation
of contemporary spousal obligations being fulfilled by a happily
married triple.
For the moment, however, it's a dirty part.
While I have never seen an Atom Egoyan movie, one that has cinema
buffs hyperventilating because there is a dirty part in it, as opposed
to because there is a cri de coeur for a lost Armenian homeland,
tweaked my interest.
It's the only reason I've ever gone to movies.
Yet it turns out to be Atom Egoyan's black capsule.