Shortbus (Unrated Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Shortbus (Unrated Edition)
Movie Review: Love Uncensored
Summary: 5 Stars
I will admit, One of the main reasons I wanted to see this movie was because of the buzz about it being one of the most sexually explicit movies ever made in the non-porn industry. I didn't really expect to find the movie interesting, I just wanted to see what everyone was talking about.
The first minute or so was nothing but explicit sex and I almost turned the movie off thinking it was going to be pointless, that this was all there was to the movie, but I had nothing better to do so I kept watching.
This movie is not porn, nor is it erotica. This movie IS an uncensored look at the truth about love and sex, and is probably one of the best movies I have ever seen. It is brutally honest, thought provoking, intense at times, and funny at others. These are characters that we can relate to, because they are real.
I can not say enough positive things about this movie, it is art, it is truth, it is exceptional.
It will definitely be a part of my DVD collection.
Movie Review: Uncomfortable, awkward, desperate... just like real life
Summary: 5 Stars
There's a few reviews saying how unreal, out of touch and in a bubble this movie is. This is one of the only movie I've ever left the theater thinking "God, that looked a lot like my life". The situations are hazy, the sex an emotionally distraught blur, the dialog sometimes uncomfortable... just like life.
To be fair, I had to see it twice before I was convince - the first time was preceded by too much hype around this film "revolutionizing sex" in cinema. Once I realized that is not what the movie is doing or trying to do, I realized it was a story of several friends I had never met. A little crazy, a bit confused, searching, oversexed. These stories are pulled from the actors' and director's personal experiences and, despite the blur of human emotions, they speak all the more clearly because of it.
And though a bit glammed up for the camera, "Short Bus" will be seen as a slice of very real life in this era - not a mock-up dream of bygone days.
Movie Review: The best indy film I have ever seen.
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a huge fan of Indy films. This is by far the best independant film I have ever seen. That may sound a bit over the top but it is written from the heart, which is where this film comes from. I knew nothing about this film before I saw it, in fact I had heard about it and shunned it as a perceived "stupid movie" based solely on the title. Yes, big lesson there somewhere.
I will admit that the sex was what caught my attention right off the bat. I had never seen images like this outside of porn and it took some getting used to (my friend literally had to close my gaping mouth at one point (a very patriotic moment)). But once I got past the graphic sexual images, I was enveloped by the utterly raw, real, and often painfull emotions, characters, and situations. All I can say beyond this (without boring you and wasting both of our times) is......SEE THIS MOVIE. You will not be sorry that you did. (even if you just like looking at pretty people having sex)
Movie Review: cathartic
Summary: 5 Stars
I'd been curious about this film for a while, and after seeing it I can honestly say that it exceeded all my expectations. Once the novelty of the non-simulated sex wears off (which is really fairly quickly), what's left is a film that explores the rich, complex emotional lives of a variety of characters. While superficially the characters are all very different (straight, gay, partnered, single, rich, poor, etc), what they all have in common is that they're all at a crossroads in terms of their sexual behavior, and how it either helps them to connect with other people and their own true selves, or not. To quote one of the actors in the film from the (excellent) documentary in the special features section of the DVD, the sex is really just a metaphor for something else.
The only other real film that I've seen that featured non-simulated sex was "Intimacy", which was a pretentious, dour bore. "Shortbus" is a deep, joyous, cathartic and beautiful film.
Movie Review: SHORTBUS
Summary: 5 Stars
John Cameron Mitchell's SHORTBUS is among on of the best feature films of a different breed. It is intensely and graphically sexual; but, it's so much more. It is masterfully performed by a highly original cast. The collaborative process and the "making of" features add another perspective. Real sex, real characters that are flesh-and-blood people that we can relate to on multiple levels. Highly emotional at points; but, funny, provocative, and philosophically challenging to a variety of individual interpretations of the feature.
If someone thinks this is "just porno", they've missed the point. If a person views THE ENTIRE MOVIE with an open, they will be pleasantly surprised at the emotional and intellectual depth of characters fleshed out; and, how everything really does "work out in the end".
The music is also very inviting. Photography, music, and acting performance combine to make a movie worth seeing more than once....