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...obsessed. Portraying sado-masochism as conducted by animals implicitly challenges the notion that this is an acceptable form of sexual expression; the masks draw a visible barrier between reason and desire. And as if that were not obvious enough, the film also includes a running dialogue between a man (er...dog) and his gargantuan, sentient penis. While the depictions spring from a liberal attitude towards sex, the ethics motivating them are conservative...
...stay on the sunny side of an R, this one turns into a static courtroom drama -- and not very well made or played either. Madonna's function is to irritate the decorous and titillate the impressionable. It's a waste of her time (and the moviegoer's) to, er, shackle her to a respectability on which neither party...
...space, and wilderness, and clean water. His early novel Raditzer is an almost allegorical tale of a restless, artistically minded son of wealth -- Charlie Stark -- who goes to sea "unable to answer his own questions, and nursing ill-defined resentments" and finds himself irresistibly drawn to an orphaned ne'er-do-well who seems his shadow self. By the time of his next novel, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, the two sides are even closer -- in characters whose names alone (Wolfie and Moon) suggest that men have murderous beasts in them, and pieces of the heavens...
...lots of blood and guts and campy overdone sex scenes in the film, most of which involve poor Lucy (Sadie Frost), the character who is ravished by Dracula in some of his less appealing forms. Meanwhile, back at the castle, a bevy of vampire harem girls keep Keanu Reeves, er, too weak to escape. Like Anne Rice's Interview With a Vampire, "Dracula" gives vampirism an allegorical overtone of sexuality out of control. Periodic shots of blood cells under a microscope underscore the linkage of vampirism, sex, corruption, death, and, you guessed it, AIDS by implication. But even this association...
...Er, some kind of monkey. We'll ask the Brain when we get home...