Over the past week I've been watching director Lars Von Trier's double film, Nymphomaniac. Lars Von Trier, if you don't know, is the director behind such artistic films as Dogville, Breaking the Waves, Melancholia, and Dancer in the Dark. This particularly film features Stellan Skarsgard and Charlotte Gainsbourg. I've always found Skarsgard rather handsome in a down to earth sense. I'm a huge fan of Gsinbourg's: she's always impressed me as an actress willing to take risks. The film's incredibly steamy, though set within the context of a fascinating conversation/ meditation on how we judge our own behaviors. It has certainly left me with some ideas for future stories. There are a number of explicit scenes, in fact. Trier says most of these were actually digitally created, certainly an impressive feat. Gainsbourg's is double penetrated, for instance, by two black men, a scene that's every bit as explicit as any porn you've ever watched. And yet it was apparently all digitally created. It certainly fooled me. Which makes you wonder where movies might head in future days. If such scenes are possible can we expect more "explict but non-explicit" movies? Or is explicit explicit, even if it isn't actually "real" and didn't actually "happen." Even so, there are some scenes that simply can't have been faked, such as a young girl's blowjob and swallow on a train ride. There are a handful of these films out there now featuring explicit sex -- Shortbus, for instance. Maybe I'm a nympho of some sort myself, but I'm definitely of the opinion that there should be more of these, not simply because they add spice to our lives but because they seem to offer an important new dimension on the notion of cinema and acting. What do you think? Anyone come across this pair of films, or others?
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