This was by far the most ridiculous film to view for a cultural diversity class. It afforded me a deja vous moment 36 years ago when I seen my first X rated film. My thoughts, "what is the plot?"
I get that they all had a lack of maternal nurturing which may have related to their insatiable need for sex, but, that is not unique to the Spanish culture. So the point of the film? I appreciate the fact that international films do display a Moe openness to sexuality but please. To show a film like this in a public school, have we lowered our standards that much since I attended college 36 years ago? I am appalled and shamed that such a film like this is shown. If indeed you feel the need to exploit this behavior, at least have the decency to allow us of a more mature demeanor opt out of the viewing.
You ask us to look past the sex scenes for the story. What is the story? Is it a lack of trust for relationships? We are promised monogamy but are you suggesting it never exists? Young people can be destroyed by a sexual relationship once they realize it isn't forever. And Lucia, knowing her husband was unfaithful, why did she stay in the relationship? Money or a feeling of obligation because he had been there for her from the beginning? Regardless, one had to search very deep , past the filth to find anything in this disgusting film.
What a bad ending to a fairly good class.
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Linda, I agree with you that it was ridiculous. There was not much plot to this film other than to make the Hispanic culture fit the "slacker", for lack of a more polictically correct word, stereotype they have been given. The boys are typical teenage boys, with hormones. Their girlfriends are in Europe, God only knows what they're doing. Throw in a beautiful, horny, married women with an unfaithful husband, that doesn't have much time here to live- what do you get? All of the qualities for a XXX rated movie. I would rather have picked it out myself though, and watched it with my husband!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, that you had to search deep to find anything in this film. It was two boys and an older women experimenting. That's my thought!