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Expose Me, Lovely (DVD)
For sex to work as a genre element the audience must be somewhat blasé. It is a tall order for audiences to be blasé about explicit sex but who forty years ago would have guessed that audiences in 2006 would be blasé about extreme violence like watching someone saw his foot off or get an ice pick in the eye? Extreme violence is not intrinsically less shocking than sex, it's just something to which we have been conditioned. (The trick to Mel Gibson's PASSION OF THE CHRIST is that the subject matter...
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Expose Me, Lovely (DVD)
For sex to work as a genre element the audience must be somewhat blasé. It is a tall order for audiences to be blasé about explicit sex but who forty years ago would have guessed that audiences in 2006 would be blasé about extreme violence like watching someone saw his foot off or get an ice pick in the eye? Extreme violence is not intrinsically less shocking than sex, it's just something to which we have been conditioned. (The trick to Mel Gibson's PASSION OF THE CHRIST is that the subject matter...
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