strange love scene
while they're watching the scenes of venice.
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Well, I think the part that may be viewed as strange is that, after first being kissed by Grant, Kelly initially pushes him away and looks at him with a mix of curiosity and disgust. I also wondered at her reaction and at first chalked it up to a general concern about her (as of yet unrevealed) past. Later on Kelly says that Grant gave her what women in her profession called a "Naked Kiss", that is, the odd smooch of a creepy pervert. Clearly she was unsettled by Grant's "naked kiss' and was unsure how to proceed.
Such an interesting film!
I'm like you Haecker, I misinterpreted her reaction at first. I thought she was going to do the whole "I was a prostitute" confession right then. But decided to continue enjoying the evening after all.
I'm still brain boggled that straight, heterosexual prostitution sex was considered the same kind of perversion as child rape. But then again, homosexuality was considered a mental illness until the 1970s, so I shouldn't be too surprised.
>>Oh, well that's different. Nevermind!<<
It is a mental sickness.. What else copuld it be? Stop drinking the cool aid the liberals have bombarded you with..
Then marriage must be a sickness too considering how its just a longer term form of prostitution. The wife gets paid when the marriage ends just as surely as a prostitute gets paid when her services are over.
shareYou know what's a mental sickness? Watching too much Bill O'Reilly and referencing things that he says.
shareYou know what's a real mental sickness? Arch-conservative Faux News acolytes dragging their ignorant political beliefs into every single aspect of life, even where they have no relevance. Grow up and get a life.
shareyour whole second paragraph is a non sequitur for me
shareI'm still brain boggled that straight, heterosexual prostitution sex was considered the same kind of perversion as child rape.
I don't think it was. That was Grant's idea - that a prostitute was a pervert like him and thus ideal wife material. It was part of his self-justification to equate himself with someone who, I think most people back then would have agreed, was immoral but far less evil than he.
Prostitutes were immoral and criminals by the standards of the time (and for many people still are today), but perverted? Only if they enjoyed the sex so much that they became ...
NYMPHOS!
Sorry. Couldn't resist. :-D share