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Why is the movie not categorized into the Porno Genre??

posted 12 years ago by erikkartmann
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Well except for the key charachters of the movie Fassbender and Mulligan not having a mutual sex scene (at one point when Carey finds Michael masturbating, he comes wraped in towel and jumps over on her, and the scene might even suggest that he was trying to finish off his unfinished business), the movie was filled up with all charachters having sex, or getting sexual. The production failed to do justice either to the title or to the golden globe nomination. What could have been a highly acclaimed artistic success ended up to be a high class porn shoot.

[–] siltom1962 9 years ago

If you have to ask...try to avoid films like this in the future, Transformers is probably more your speed.

[–] patrick_bateman_90029 9 years ago

Other posters hit the nail on the head. Pornography, at its base definition, is defined as something that's meant to be arousing for the audience. I'm sure there are one or two people in the world who found the film sexually exciting - because who doesn't want to see Michael Fassbender naked? - but, much like John Waters' "A Dirty Shame" or von Trier's "Nymph()maniac", "recent" films to also cover sex addiction, there's really nothing arousing about how the sex in the film is portrayed. It's very sterile, disheartening and borderline hideous in its portrayal. Even Brandon feels no arousal when he's in the act because it's turned into his drug/liquor of choice, and that's the major key to understanding the tragedy of his life and his arc. Like the threesome at the end. It's not joy, it's agony for him.

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