I've always enjoyed Jane Austen's books, and almost all the movie/TV adaptions of the books. I saw the BBC movie Jane Austen's Persuasion (2007) a few months ago on DVD. I like it enough that I bought the DVD as well.
Last night, I had a bit of free time, so I watch Last Tango In Paris on hulu.com. I watched this movie long time ago when I was quite small in Hong Kong. The movie was so heavily edited that I can only remember bits and pieces of it. Naturally, I didn't quite understand the movie at the time. Granted its controversy even to this day, I've decided to watch it again. It's free on hulu anyways.
I can't help but wonder out loud how the topic of sex and romance over the decades past have turned so much, for the worse. There it is, on the one hand, we have the idea of constancy, faithfulness and true romance in Persuasion. And then, we have Tango, where Bertulocci would have us believed that it's anything remotely resembled something called love. Granted that I don't like the idea of rigid and straitlaced society in the Jane Austen's days, it's laughable and totally crass for Bertulocci to tell us that the raw, crude sex should precede love, where the guy has total disregard and disrespect of the girl. How could one possibly consider that as love?!?
While I have no doubt that pedophilia have existed for as long as human history, I do believe the vast proliferation and reports in news of child porn and child abuse have alot to do with the exposure of and the subsequent desensitizing of crude sex in movies and mass media. Those who consider bad movies like Last Tango In Paris, and A Clockwork Orange are simply contributing to this.
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