The Opposite of Sex - L'esatto contrario del sesso
Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.
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- QuizThe cabin in Ontario, Big Bear Lake is the same filming location as Dr. Falken's house in Wargames - Giochi di guerra (1983).
- BlooperWhen Lucia (Lisa Kudrow) is following Jason and Martin into Canada, her map shows they are crossing at Windsor Ontario, but the next scene shows the border crossing in a rural setting. The crossing at Windsor is a 24 lane bridge crossing.
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Bill Truitt: [pulling on Jason's pierced nipple] Listen to me, you little grunge faggot. I survived my family, my schoolyard, every Republican, every other Democrat, Anita Bryant, the Pope, the fucking Christian Coalition, not to mention a real son of a bitch of a virus, in case you haven't noticed. In all that time since Paul Lynde and Truman Capote were the only fairies in America, I've been busting my ass so that you'd be able to do what you wanted with yours! So I don't just want your obedience right now - which I do want and plenty of it - but I want your fucking gratitude, right fucking now, or you're going to be looking down a long road at your nipple in the dirt! Do you hear what I'm saying?
- Curiosità sui creditiNo minor was used to portray any sexually explicit conduct.
- Colonne sonoreLookin' For Love
Written by Hank Hunter and Stan Vincent (as Steven Vincent)
Performed by Jeanie Stahl
Produced and Arranged by Mason Daring
Very Special Thanks to Windsept Pacific and Lysa Grande
But this movie is different, and it pushed past the ordinary barriers I establish for movie life, barriers I didn't even know were there.
Here's the setup: we have a movie, with love and events and discovery just like any other movie. There actually are characters and some pithy engagement among them and with us. But thats only the excuse for the filmmaker to have a completely separate dialog with us. The movie is the excuse for that dialog, though sometimes the higher level of engagement between us and Roos will borrow from the story.
He is, in fact, having a sort of sex with us at the same time he tells us its the opposite, a different sort of attraction and seduction.
Roos' surrogate is Ricci in voice-over narration. It is the very best she has been, except for that bowling alley scene in "Buffalo." Since she isn't a great acting talent, what this means is that the role is a perfect fit for her sort of sexual detachment.
The narration starts out commenting on the movie, telling us what kind of movie this is not, and how we cannot expect her to behave as if she were in a movie. She leaves home and steals a gun. While doing so, she tells us to pay attention, that the gun will prove significant. Then, she deliciously shifts back into character and says that's foreshadowing and we studied that in school.
This is pretty shocking stuff, this shift out of the movie, using moviedom's most intimate trick, the internal noir narrative that starts such films. We immediately have a bond with this girl, but in her role outside the movie. As the movie rolls on, she bonds intimately with many characters, and each is an opportunity for us to readjust the relationship we have with her outside.
It is sex, no it is the opposite of sex, at least movie sex. But it is attraction as strong. And when it goes wrong, as it must, it is devastating. We know how to have movie sex, but few of us seem to have any dexterity with these things outside of movies.
And that's the point. I guess we can thank Hal Hartley from paving the way for this.
Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.
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- Luoghi delle riprese
- Big Bear Lake, Big Bear Valley, San Bernardino National Forest, California, Stati Uniti(lodge in Canada where Dedee flees to with Matt and Jason)
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- 5.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 5.881.367 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 102.385 USD
- 25 mag 1998
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 5.881.367 USD