Word: sordid
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...says, "have allowed all the protective barriers to go down. We have done away with chaperons, supervision, rules, close family relations, and privacy from the intrusion of the communications media. We have left our children totally vulnerable to the onslaughts of the commercial exploitation of sex, tabloid reporting of sordid sexual occurrences, wholly unsupervised after-school occupations. To fill the void left by the old safeguards, youngsters must be given a bulwark of factual knowledge and orientation...
...seminude courtesan tries to seduce a hunchback as his image mocks him from three mirrors. Fashionable men and women strip to nearly topless leotards and pantomime a sordid orgy. A bearded astrologer chants about immortality while peacocks scream. In a gloomy garden, a man embraces a sculptured minotaur, seeing in it the face of his brother. Statues spring to life in an eerie dance...
...word or deed. He called his parents "unwashed savages" before they died; and when they died, he did not trouble to attend their funerals. After 33 years of marriage marked by frequent periods of absenteeism, his wife sued him for divorce on grounds of desertion. His two sons died sordid deaths, one a suicide (after killing his girl friend's husband), the other from pneumonia contracted during a drinking bout. His daughter saw him so seldom that he could be considered a trespasser in her life...
...vindictive God Almighty is, while a character at a party asks his unlucky neighbor. In between social conflicts and religious questioning, Sjoman schedules bed scenes. These appear in extraordinary variety. In fact, the movie is practically a documentary on sexual adventure. It presents innocent flirtation, premarital seduction, ordinary sordid whoring, passionate incest...
There is very little acting and no detectable direction in the production. Some care has been taken to slather the actors with pastes suitable to their sordid states, but why was no hair mussed? I like the way the girls wear their hair, and hope that they continue wearing it off-stage so, but nuts just aren't that tidy. Something should also be done about Sherry Turkle's legs, which are quite pleasantly pink. Miss Turkle plays the maid Maria, in this production a septuagenarian cackler. Of course I don't begrudge her her pink legs, but it just...