Bio-pic of a famous academic and sex researcher who "threw back the covers" on America's private life.
Hollywood wants to make strange films. Who was crying out to make a film about Jimmy Hoffa, President Nixon or today's title subject? Nobody that I know and besides - isn't documentary there to do this kind of thing? Why drama? And since I brought up the subject of drama, was his life even that dramatic? A dull academic (although a good one) who had a sexy (no pun intended) subject to play with. And besides, what does it mean to me - a kid who was taken to the topless beaches of Spain at six? America is still (yes still!) shocked by the bare female nipple - yet pays more per household to see them than any country on earth. Confused? You should be.
Liam Nieson is a fine actor doing a fine job in title role - but the script has a dull central character and I couldn't care about America's obsession with its own navel (or below) or even its own hypocrisies or false images of itself. Historical or present day. So, in me, they have a hostile witness to start with.
Kinsey had an easy life and a good (and forgiving) wife so it was other people that had the "problem." His job seemed to be mostly keeping a straight face and appearing neutral (not easy when faced with child molesters). Drama is, indeed, in short supply and any film that needs to show people wandering in woods observing mother nature doesn't have enough of a plot to fit between the start and end credits.
Reading the other reviews I ask the mute question. What have you learnt? Sex and hypocrisy go together like eggs and bacon. I don't even understand my needs and desires - although having no sex is better than having bad sex. And Kinsey's stat based research gives me no modern insight - other than to acknowledge that homosexuality hasn't changed as a percentage of the population over the years. America likes its sex with a healthy dollop of shame and hypocrisy. It doesn't want sexual honesty. As Woody Allen once replied (on film) to the question of whether he found sex dirty: "Only if you are doing it right..."
Hollywood wants to make strange films. Who was crying out to make a film about Jimmy Hoffa, President Nixon or today's title subject? Nobody that I know and besides - isn't documentary there to do this kind of thing? Why drama? And since I brought up the subject of drama, was his life even that dramatic? A dull academic (although a good one) who had a sexy (no pun intended) subject to play with. And besides, what does it mean to me - a kid who was taken to the topless beaches of Spain at six? America is still (yes still!) shocked by the bare female nipple - yet pays more per household to see them than any country on earth. Confused? You should be.
Liam Nieson is a fine actor doing a fine job in title role - but the script has a dull central character and I couldn't care about America's obsession with its own navel (or below) or even its own hypocrisies or false images of itself. Historical or present day. So, in me, they have a hostile witness to start with.
Kinsey had an easy life and a good (and forgiving) wife so it was other people that had the "problem." His job seemed to be mostly keeping a straight face and appearing neutral (not easy when faced with child molesters). Drama is, indeed, in short supply and any film that needs to show people wandering in woods observing mother nature doesn't have enough of a plot to fit between the start and end credits.
Reading the other reviews I ask the mute question. What have you learnt? Sex and hypocrisy go together like eggs and bacon. I don't even understand my needs and desires - although having no sex is better than having bad sex. And Kinsey's stat based research gives me no modern insight - other than to acknowledge that homosexuality hasn't changed as a percentage of the population over the years. America likes its sex with a healthy dollop of shame and hypocrisy. It doesn't want sexual honesty. As Woody Allen once replied (on film) to the question of whether he found sex dirty: "Only if you are doing it right..."