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Not much to report on today, except that Shobhit and I watched this week's episode of season 5 of
Fargo last night, and after that we watched the movie
Passages, which is about a gay couple in a nonmonogamous relationship and one of them has an affair with a woman.
The movie has gotten some notice because of its unusually frank sex scenes. They were so realistic that at one point Shobhit was thinking Ben Wishaw and Franz Rogowski were having actual sex on camera, even though there was no evidence of that at all.
There is this interesting tidbit from the movie's
trivia page on IMDb:
Director Ira Sachs and distributor MUBI rejected the NC-17 rating the movie received and released it in theaters unrated in August 2023. Sachs called the rating "a form of cultural censorship that is quite dangerous, particularly in a culture which is already battling, in such extreme ways, the possibility of LGBT imagery to exist."
It should be noted that slapping this movie with an NC-17 rating absolutely would be homophobic, because the only reason for it would be the very existence of gay sex. There is a couple of glimpses of penises, but there is never any erect penis onscreen, and certainly no actual penetration seen. The closest is the aforementioned sex scene between Ben Wishaw and Franz Rogowski, with Rogowski kind of sticking his fingers into the crack of Wishaw's butt (even Shobhit was almost shocked by that)—but, again, no actual penetration happens. And: if the very same thing were happening with a straight couple, I am certain it would not have gotten an NC-17 rating.
Anyway. I had to sign up for a free tiral of MUBI to watch it, which I did through Amazon Prime Video, and I canceled the membership right after signing up for it, so there won't be any automatic renewal in a week. I just wanted to see this movie, and I'm
glad I finally got to.
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What else can I tell you, or should I tell you? Honestly, it's nice being back in a mode where I sometimes have little to report. I had a blast through the holiday season but damn, was it busy. Not even the PTO I took made me any less busy, which makes it
very clear how easily I will fill every waking minute right back up if and when I can retire. You know, a hundred years from now.
I've got plenty going on over the weekend, but it's all back to the basics of my regular movie-watching life: Saturday and Sunday both with Laney, Saturday watching a double feature in the Braeburn Condos theater, of
The Road Warrior and
Mad Max: Fury Road; Sunday going to see
American Fiction. We were actually scheduled to see
American Fiction tonight at first, but Laney has a mild cold she wants to rest enough to get over by the weekend, and the showtimes weren't super convenient anyway. Going on Sunday instead will be easier.
Next week is even more movie-heavy, what with the Golden Globe Awards Sunday night; another movie to go see with Laney on Tuesday; Action Movie Night at the Braeburn on Wednesday; and another two movies to watch the following Friday and Saturday, probably. It would seem I am incapable of just spending days on end chilling at home. Although I've kind of done that this week, for like, a whole three days in a row!
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