Carnal Knowledge
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Movie Reviews of Carnal Knowledge
Movie Review: Good Trend-setting Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie was one of the first movies to really push the envelope when it came to sex and relationships. The movie explored the relationship between two college buddies as they started out their single lives just trying to get laid. As time went on, one of them decided to get married and experience the "typical" life(Art Garfunkel), while the other one went about just trying to get laid(Jack Nicholson). The idea of "looks are everything" was portraied by Jack Nicholson, who just wanted a girl that was well-endowed. Art Garfunkel on the other hand was more sensitive to what a woman wanted, but still did not fully understand what love is. Both characters had very different ideas on what they wanted in a woman, but both were unable to appreciate what they had, and often went looking elsewhere. One of the most important lines in the movie comes in the opening credits where the two debate if it is better to love and not be loved back, or to be loved and not love them. This is the theme the director uses to define the movie. Nicholson is loved, but has no love to give. Garfunkel loves, but is not loved back. It is interesting to watch their lives play out as they grow older, but seems to be missing something that would make it a classic. I think this could be helped with a better ending, more closure to their lives.B+
Movie Review: "Sandy, do you wanna get laid?"
Summary: 4 Stars
"Carnal Knowledge" (1971) directed by Mike Nichols with Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Candice Bergen, Ann-Margret in an Oscar nominated performance as a sex kitten who wants to marry Nicholson's Jonathan, and Carol Kane and Rita Moreno in the small roles is one of the movies that made 70s so memorable. It is also the movie that keeps reminding me why I love Jack Nicholson of his early years and how grand he was without his "Jackness" which he has developed during all these years. Sandy (Garfunkel) and Jonathan are two college friends and like every straight young (and not too young) man in the world they are obsessed by girls and move from one relationship to another in the course of almost thirty years. Nichols and Jules Feiffer who wrote the play and later adapted it for the screen let us look inside the minds and souls of two educated upper-middle class white males and to learn their very intimate thoughts and secrets concerning their plentiful dysfunctional and joyless affairs and it is not a pretty picture - "Boys begin life not liking girls, later they don't change, they just get horny." The film is honest, uncomfortable, "very slick, very clever".
Movie Review: Seinfeld - 1971
Summary: 4 Stars
I rented this and was pleasantly shocked. A very mature movie with genuinely great dialogue. The banter and over analysis by each character truly is Seinfeldian and I'm sure YEARS ahead of its time. The use of the camera is also delectible; often you will hear conversations by characters off screen while the camera is focused on someone merely "listening". Often a character will be looking straight at the camera (YOU) while they are speaking to another making you feel like you are more connected to the movie. And of course Jack has a big tirade that brings the house down!
The only unfortunate aspects are Candice Bergen disappearing midway through and an ending that was less than fulfilling. A perfect rental and a good buy; if your a Jack fan it's good, if your a fan of thoughtful conversation it's a MUST! And I hear that "Arthur" Garfunkel fella has a side project... something to do with.. music? And a decent actor to boot.
Movie Review: Hard to believe this film is more than 30 yrs old
Summary: 4 Stars
Carnal Knowledge spans 30 years in the lives of two college friends, guys played by Jack Nicholson (you won't believe how young he looks) and Art Garfunkel (yes, one and the same). Jack Nicholson plays a tax lawyer with the hots for women who are, shall we say, well-endowed. Garfunkel plays the more temperate guy, a doctor who has quiet affairs. As they go from youth to middle age, the movie, revolutionary at the time and wonderfully directed by Mike Nichols, follows their paths, examining how their attitudes toward women and sex are a reflection of their life values. It's not a pretty picture, and despite the titillation of the title, it's not even particularly sexy. But it's worth seeing, even if only for the way in which it is viewed as a pioneer film of the early 70s, a time in which long-held Hollywood traditions were giving way to more adult-style movies.Movie Review: From angst to emptiness
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie traces the male attitude toward sexual relations from the 1940s to the late '60s. Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel are the two male friends who are college roomies, fall in love with the same girl, and then go their separate ways. Nicholson is the women-hating, unable-to-become-committed one, who ends up impotent except when told how masculine and tough he is. Garfunkel never knows who he is or what he wants, and although he gets the right girl in college, throws it all away later on. A depressing look at this situation, to be sure (over the 20 years dealt with in the film, things only go from bad to worse to awful), but fairly on target, and again Nicholson as the male monster is excellent. Though somewhat outdated, the movie is perceptive and well done. Worth a watch.