Comments on: Film Festival Review: Love at the Twilight Motel [SPOILERS] http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/film-festival-review-love-at-the-twilight-motel-spoilers Committees exist to share blame. Mon, 14 May 2012 18:24:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jack http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/film-festival-review-love-at-the-twilight-motel-spoilers/comment-page-1#comment-72658 Jack Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:01:35 +0000 http://mentalpolyphonics.com/?p=9906#comment-72658 [Edited to add to the "<a href="http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/tag/movies" rel="nofollow">Movies</a>" cloud.] [Edited to add to the "Movies" cloud.]

]]> By: Jack http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/film-festival-review-love-at-the-twilight-motel-spoilers/comment-page-1#comment-72648 Jack Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:50:36 +0000 http://mentalpolyphonics.com/?p=9906#comment-72648 The guy who introduced the film, the programming director (?) of the 'Fest, said that this film would provide a view onto a life that is alien to the Victorian Experience. I think he's just sheltered, or self-deluding. I agree with Jared: the film's themes were applicable on a societal level. The basic prerequisite for healthy sexuality is consent. With consent almost everything is moral. Without consent everything is immoral. The people that were least-sad, least-evil, least-heartbreaking in the film were the ones engaging in consensual activities. This does <em>not</em> include the high-functioning heroin addict, who was cheating on his wife in multiple dimensions (sex with prostitutes and clandestine IV drug use per her health at risk silently and unacceptably). The guy who introduced the film, the programming director (?) of the ‘Fest, said that this film would provide a view onto a life that is alien to the Victorian Experience.

I think he’s just sheltered, or self-deluding. I agree with Jared: the film’s themes were applicable on a societal level.

The basic prerequisite for healthy sexuality is consent. With consent almost everything is moral. Without consent everything is immoral. The people that were least-sad, least-evil, least-heartbreaking in the film were the ones engaging in consensual activities.

This does not include the high-functioning heroin addict, who was cheating on his wife in multiple dimensions (sex with prostitutes and clandestine IV drug use per her health at risk silently and unacceptably).

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