We watched some of the movie. It was shocking. Sex is apparently hard labor. Various persons supported crushing weights in agonizing positions for what seemed like endless blocks of time. Exhausted men grunted and toiled like movers trying to get a refrigerator into a fifth floor walk-up.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The movie depicts sex as exhausting physical labor rather than intimacy.
- In plain terms
- The film showed sex like hard work with people lifting weights.
- What can you take from it?
- Artistic portrayals can distort intimate acts.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How should media portray intimacy?
- Why do films use such metaphors?
Another view
Artistic exaggeration is common in cinema.
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