Kinsey

Kinsey
by Bill Condon

Kinsey
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Actor: Chris O'Donnell, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton
Director: Bill Condon
Writer: Bill Condon
Producer: Adam Shulman
Producer: Bobby Rock
Producer: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Gail Mutrux
Producer: Joel Hatch
Producer: Kirk D'Amico
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-17
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

Movie Reviews of Kinsey

Movie Review: A good Film With Few Flaws
Summary: 4 Stars

The story of Alfred Kinsey and his reports on human sexuality is difficult to comprehend, but director Bill Condon does a great job trying to explain it all. While leaving a few questions unanswered, it is for the most part an excellent film with an excellent cast.

The film portrays Kinsey as an authority on sex, but there is no indication on HOW he became an expert. Suddenly he is giving sexual advice to students and the audience is left to ask how this occurred. And closely related to this enigma is why did people believe his background in biology qualified him for the psychological aspects of sexual relations? The film on occasion broaches this subject by a character asking of his qualifications, and we are led to believe that his knowledge of biology suffices...which is patently nonsensical. While sex is a biologic function, it also is a deeply-rooted emotional one; and gathering data to prove WHAT people do in bed doesn't help explain WHY people do the things they do in bed.

The film, however, brilliantly explores the fact that society became conditioned to believe that sex for any purpose other than reproduction was prurient. Kinsey proved the hypocrisy of American society by showing that a great percentage of Americans...both male and female...were doing all of the things society wasn't supposed to discuss.

Conversely, the film shows the inherent problem of relegating sex exclusively to its biology and ignoring the psychology of it by portraying Kinsey's researchers as being immune to the privacy of sex. They boorishly discuss sexual acts in public and (even more boorishly), discuss with others the intimate details of their own sex lives, often with their wives present.

The film (being a product of the 21st century) portrays those who disagreed with Kinsey as puritanical prudes. This is an unfair judgement. Many people found Kinsey's means of gathering data faulty, expecially when that data dealt with pedophiles. Also, many believed his credentials did not qualify him for such research.

It makes for an excellent story despite the several flaws. For those weak of stomach on sexual matters, you might want to pass this one up for a Disney flick.

Summary of Kinsey

Liam Neeson stars as Alfred Kinsey, a man driven by scientific passion and personal demons to investigate the elusive mystery of human sexuality. Laura Linney garnered a Best Actress Oscar?(r) nomination for her compelling performance as Kinsey?"???s free-thinking wife. This provocative drama dares to lift the veil of shame from a society in which sex was hidden, knowledge was dangerous and talking about it was the ultimate taboo.
One of the best films of 2004, Kinsey pays tribute to the flawed but honorable man who revolutionized our understanding of human sexuality. As played by Liam Neeson in writer-director Bill Condon's excellent film biography, Indiana University researcher Alfred Kinsey was so consumed by statistical measurements of human sexual activity that he almost completely overlooked the substantial role of emotions and their effect on human behavior. This made him an ideal researcher and science celebrity who revealed that sexual behaviors previously considered deviant and even harmful (homosexuality, oral sex, etc.) are in fact common and essentially normal in the realm of human experience, but whose obsession with scientific method frequently placed him at odds with his understanding wife (superbly played by Laura Linney) and research assistants. In presenting Kinsey as a driven social misfit, Condon's film gives Neeson one of his finest roles while revealing the depth of Kinsey's own humanity, and the incalculable benefit his research had on our collective sexual enlightenment. With humor, charm, and intelligence, Kinsey shines a light where darkness once prevailed. --Jeff Shannon

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