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Movie Reviews of Kinsey
Movie Review: A very sexy, funny, provocative, and stimulating biopic!
Summary: 5 Stars
Kinsey was so much more enjoyable than any other biopics in recent years. It's filled with funny, provocative, and stimulating sexual contents that's on a league of it's own. The performances from Liam Neeson and Laura Linney are mesmerizing! Even the supporting actors are terrific, especially Peter Sarsgaard's scene stealing performance.
The story chronicles the professional and married life of Kinsey(Neeson). He started his study in biology, and devoted years in learning about insects. He married his student Clara(Linney), and they did not have premarital intercourse. It was kind of funny how it turned out the first time they had sex. It was too painful for Clara to receive him, because he was too well-endowed! He eventually got interested in human sexual behviours and became an expert in the field after many interviews and research.
He went as far as having an affair with his assistant Clyde(Sarsgaard). When he confessed it to Clara, she was devastated, but she knew it was inevitable that he would sleep with another man. This was probably Linney's best scene, and she's great when she cries until her eyes turn red. She eventually made a deal and gets to do the same by sleeping with Clyde, so they are even, and they will be happy again.
The book Kinsey wrote became an international best-seller. Unfortunately, the sequel, a research on women was poorly received, and barshed by mainstream society. He was experiencing the fall of his career, but he just kept on going at it....
The funniest moments came in when he was interviewing people, or when his co-researchers were interviewing him. The tender moment was when he interviewed his estranged father(John Lithgow) who was sexually traumatized and repressed.
I strongly see Liam Neeson getting a best actor nomination, because it's his best work since Rob Roy and Les Miserables . And Linney's performace will easily put her on the best supporting actress category.
Movie Review: High Marks for the Film "Kinsey"
Summary: 5 Stars
I give high marks for the film "Kinsey." In this region I had to travel to Battle Creek, MI to see it, not my usual city for seeing movies. So, was the film "Kinsey" too strong a movie for where I live 30 miles away? In seems possibly so, though just rated R. Even years ago, Kinsey's book "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was kept off some public library shelves --- perhaps a little too strong for the readership.
This movie was particularly intriguing regarding Kinsey's family background and his professional training and career as an entomologist who studied the Goss Wing for years. Motivated to change his area of study because of students who consulted with him about sex, Kinsey began gathering data from thousands of volunteers across the nation thus applying the scientific method to a new field of study.
It was interesting to hear of the old wives tales and Victorian/Puritanical prudery concerning sex prevalent in Kinsey's day. Likewise, I heard plenty of the religious right's views. Kinsey wanted to study human sex without these layers of superstition and misinformation.
At the peak of his career as a scientific sexologist, Kinsey walked into the quagmire of political correctness. This was during an era of congressional inquiry concerning the private non-profit organizations like the Rockefeller Foundation which financed Kinsey's pivotal studies about human sex.
This movie, in my opinion, produced a well-balanced view of how a classically trained biologist researched this bomb shattering field of human sexuality. It also showed how Dr. Kinsey's reports shattered the folkways and mores of his era, consistent with my recollections of the time.
Add this to some very fine acting by Liam Neeson as Dr. Alfred Kinsey and a fantastic supporting cast and you get a great movie on this topic.
I want to own the DVD when it comes out.
Movie Review: Very Entertaining and...Amusing Film
Summary: 5 Stars
"Kinsey" is written and directed by Oscar winner Bill Condon and has an all-star (and a great) cast featuring Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Peter Sarsgaard,
Chris O'Donnel, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, and Oliver Platt. "Kinsey" scored 3 Golden Globe nominations including Best Picture and an Oscar nomination for Laura Linney. The movie is based on the life of Alfred Kinsey, a person I had no knowledge of prior to viewing this film. The movie is very entertaining, well told with some great dialouge and acting (for a bio-pic anyway). But, anyway Neeson (who should've got an Oscar nomination)
plays Professor Alfred Kinsey, nicknamed Prok by his students. Prok studies and teaches about gall wasps and meets a student named Clara (Linney) who is one of the few women expressing interest in wasps herself. Clara eventually aquires the nickname Mac and the two get married. Both are virgins and after experiencing sex, Prok becomes fascinated with it and the ignorance of sex that people have. Kinsey takes it on himself to teach people about it and only becomes more and more interested as times goes on. The movie takes some weird turns, like when Prok hires his first assistant Clyde (Sarsgaard, who I usually like but for some reason acts better in independent films) and the two begin to have a homosexual relationship. At one point, Clyde even has sex with Mac. Eventually Kinsey recruits two other assistants
(Hutton & O'Donnel, both great) and so on. As I said the movie is well told, entertaining throughout. Not only is the movie interesting, but the lessons Kinsey (Neeson) teaches in the movie are interesting too. A few scenes had me busting up laughing (think the mexican guy. "It's true, I had sex with pony. How'd you know). Some of the things discussed in the movie are cringe worthy, when they discuss subjects like child molestation and beastiality but whatever. A-
Movie Review: condon and neeson do not disappoint
Summary: 5 Stars
in the excellent tradition of gods and monsters, bill condon has produced another excellent character study. condon has engendered another excellent performance from the lead actor, liam neeson, and shows the type of person kinsey really was. the movie revolves around alfred kinsey and his infamous study of human sexual behavior. the movie shows the type of work horse kinsey was and the movie also shows how his work affected those around him. laura linney portrays his wife and peter saarsgard is one of his research assistants. the three form a sort of love triangle that is very unconventional for the standards of the 40s and 50s. however, this triangle is very telling of the type of people all three were and also to the testament of how much they all believed in the project. the movie also shows how kinsey worked himself into the ground and all the hardships he had to overcome in his personal and professional life. the best moment of the movie arrives very close to the end when kinsey is interviewing lynn redgrave. this comes in a point of the movie where kinsey begins to doubt whether all of his work has been worthwhile. point being that this scene is very touching because the woman reveals that he has saved her life with the study and by telling him this she not only validates his work but in a larger scope actually validates his life because his work was his life. i personally loved this movie and cant wait to get it on dvd. this man was a pioneer and should be respected for having the audacity to carry out such a taboo project in the time period he did. the whole movie is very solid from all points of view. go and see it i cannot imagine disappointment coming from this movie, but you can never please everyone.Movie Review: One of the most intelligent films out there...
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a huge fan of writer/director Bill Condon (Chicago). Like his film, Gods and Monsters, this movie has a great screenplay. Condon is a natural at writing smart dialogue and gripping characters. Also like Gods and Monsters, the subject of this film is someone whom society would view as a sexual deviant.
It tells the story of Alfred Kinsey - a zoologist specializing in bugs. In middle age, he developed an interest in human sexuality and taught a college course on the subject. Soon, he became a pioneer is sex research.
It is wonderful to see Liam Neeson in a movie that will actually let him ACT again. He portrays Kinsey, not as a pervert, but as a scientist who is doing socially beneficial work. In the times in which Kinsey lived, newlywed women still did not know where babies came from. What he was most interested in was doing away with the shame that most people felt from believing that they were not "normal" sexually. However, his life takes a turn for the weird when he becomes personally involved with his research.
The movie presents us with a character who is a bit morally ambivalent. Yes, he did have good motives and he did accomplish a lot of good. On the other hand, I think most scientists nowadays would agree that the methods he used were unethical. Furthermore, there are some aspects of conventional society that are worth preserving. The movie is honest about all of this and it is a funny, provocative picture.