Sex, Lies, & Videotape
Written: Aug 29 '00
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Pros: Andie Macdowell's acting, character development, gripping, unique direction
Cons: '80s...it looks fairly dated
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| lorenmgreen's Full Review: Sex, Lies and Videotape |
Not only does it's sinful title capture your attention, but the overlaying of characters and the powerful dialogues that make up this film help to create its own world inside that of the four lead characters.
After seeing director Steven Soderberg's bizarre comedy Schizopolis, I was intrigued about his other films. Sex, Lies, and Videotape, he critically hailed debut film, is a very well made piece of art.
This film, to me, seems more of a literary piece than a typical film, as there is ample character development and interaction, with dialogues and narration being the primary sources of drawing this information for the viewers. It also uses what I will call literary symbols, as the film's content can also be transposed into the more symbolic realm of meaning. Of course, the general theme that this movie brings up is that we all have serious problems and we choose to deal with them by looking at others' problems instead of our own.
Sex, Lies, and Videotape is a slow movie without any real action. Most of the movie is dialogue, with maybe one sex scene and one punch thrown in. Soderberg, who also wrote the film, succeeds, I feel, especially through his well crafted and diverse characters, ranging from business-type lawyer John, to his bothered, unsexual wife Ann, to her loud, sex-interested sister Cynthia, to the real puzzle of the movie, the weirdo Graham.
It is Graham who brings to light the sexual tensions and adulteries going on, the social unhappiness and the perverse desires of the cast's feelings. He shows us, the viewers, what is really happening for this four person crew.
In Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Soderberg creates a dialogue based film that keeps your interest going until the very end. It's got tension to progress the plot, but the real heart of the film is its intelligent and relevant characters and their interactions with one another, developing as confused human beings in an imperfect world. Each character shows that they are neither hero not enemy, but human.
Recommended:
Yes
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