Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lambs, which features a crazed transvestite who kills and flays women, and JFK, which has a scene in which gays alleged to be conspirators in the Kennedy assassination cavort in sadomasochistic fun and games. No movie, however, has provoked more outrage in the gay community than Basic Instinct, the box-office hit in which Michael Douglas plays a troubled detective who falls in love with a mystery writer (Sharon Stone) who is one of three bisexual or lesbian women suspected of stabbing a man to death with an ice pick...
...Basic Instinct...
...BASIC INSTINCT. This confused thriller, about a detective (Michael Douglas) and a bisexual novelist (Sharon Stone) who may do her sharpest work with an ice pick, has some steamy skin scenes; that's what all the ratings ruckus was about. (The film lost less than a minute and got an R.) But there's something wrong with a whodunit if, at the end, viewers are still asking, "O.K., who done it?" The answer is director Paul Verhoeven. And the next question...
...naming of one of them, in a publicity campaign aimed at undermining the movie). This reflects its fundamental flaw of arrogance, a smug faith in the ability of its own speed, smartness and luxe to wow the yokels. It is its attitude, not its morality, that ultimately undoes Basic Instinct...
CINEMA Basic Instinct goes wrong, but not for the reasons you think...