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A Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
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A Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
“While Lang never fully embraced socialist principles over the course of his career, he always seemed to have a violent distaste for the men who stood on the shoulders of those who were less fortunate, knowing full well that social class does not correlate a strong moral conscious.”
“The film has an unusually conservative vibe for a noir, maintaining that the status quo may be boring but criminality has nothing to offer — not even carnal thrills.”
“Carpenter doesn’t frame the film as being about an outlier male abuser, but a culture that has little respect for a woman’s personal space.”
“In many ways, ‘Christine’ reflects a skepticism of the ‘I take what I want, when I want it’ system that emerges when consumerism becomes the dominant ideological force of society.”
“At the heart of ‘Prince of Darkness,’ the failures of religion and science reflect the limits of the human mind to grasp the immensity of the universe and our menial position within it.”
“In John Carpenter’s ‘In the Mouth of Madness,’ the delicate reality in which we live exists only as far we as believe it.”
A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
“‘American Gigolo’ doesn’t necessarily work as a neo-noir, but it still has enough romance and intrigue to be well worth watching.”
A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith