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Kinsey

I caught Kinsey on Saturday, with interest in seeing Liam Neeson's performance. He does not fail to impress!

I will recommend this movie to others only if they check up on it to see if it's the kind of movie they could handle. It's high in sexual conversation and scenes, and contains homosexual content as well.

This movie follows cleverly through Kinsey's youth as he answers his own sexual history questionaire. We see him develop bisexual tendencies and we see how his father influences his outcome. The story moves on to Kinsey's relationship with his wife, and then progresses to how he undertakes a study of sexual behavior in the male and female, which had never really been done before.

I really enjoyed the movie. It made me squirm a couple of times, but overall I found it interesting. I liked how the question of science vs. emotion was brought up. I liked seeing how knowledge of sexual behavior could be seen as a double-edged sword. I liked seeing how Kinsey functioned within his family and within the realm of science.

I thought, for a movie of this sort, it was fairly tastefully done. I mean, it has a ton of sexual content, but that's what the man studied, so.... yeah.

Liam Neeson and Laura Linney were both great. Neeson's curious, studious, irritated, and innocent attitudes were very evenly played. He never went overboard. At the same time, Linney's performance was just as good, as she showed the conflict between knowledge and emotions in love through her character.

The overall directing and style were very picturesque as well.

I don't know what else to say. It made me think a lot, and it was an interesting portrayal of a complicated person's life. I really enjoyed it. You decide if you want to see it.

Posted by wendytime at December 1, 2004 07:59 AM | TrackBack