There's a NetFlix
category STEAMY ROMANCE. Some of the titles in the category
are Murphy's Romance, The Young
Victoria, Roman Holiday,
and 9 Songs. It's my job to find
movies I think MoSup will like, and this is one of the venues I mine
for the chick flicks she favors (Sleeping
in Seattle, etc). Over the holidays I dialed up 9 Songs.
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The
film tells the modern love story set over a period of 12 months in
London, England of a young couple: Matt, a British climatologist, and
Lisa, an American exchange student. The story is framed in a personal
review from Matt's perspective when he is working in Antarctica. Their
main common interest is a passion for live music and they frequently
attend rock concerts together; the film depicts the couple, or Matt
alone, watching nine songs at Brixton Academy and other concert venues.
It also shows their weekend getaway into the countryside, and their
travels around London. Lisa brings their short and intense relationship
to an end at Christmas time when she returns home to America.
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So I'm watching, and it doesn't take long for me to notice that
this really is steamy. And then really really steamy. And then
HFS steamy. It is in fact ... well, allow me to quote from
Wikipedia:
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According
to The Guardian, 9 Songs
was the most sexually explicit
mainstream film to date, largely because it includes several scenes of
real sex between the two lead actors. Margo Stilley's role is highly
unusual in that she had unsimulated and very graphic sex with her
co-star Kieran O'Brien, including genital fondling, masturbation with
and without a vibrator, penetrative vaginal sex, cunnilingus and fellatio.
During a scene in which Stilley masturbates his penis with her hand
after performing fellatio on him, he became the only actor who has been
shown ejaculating in a mainstream, UK-produced
feature. In the interest of sexual health and to avoid any possible
pregnancy, O'Brien wore a condom on his erect penis during the vaginal
sex but not while receiving oral sex. |
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Yes, it's porn, but it's also a chick flick. Kieran O'Brien had a role
in Band of Brothers, and
Margo Stilley is girl next door; no tats, no piercings. I actually
wound up caring about these two. If Mo Sup ever expressed a
desire to watch porn (for the first time), it would be this one I'd
suggest. But I won't. I'll just say, "this looked promisng, do you want to give
it a go?" Without the steamy sex it's only 3½ (out of 5)
stars. I gave it 9.
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