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Movies That Fuck: A List for Sensualists and Perverts
I was on Bluesky recently (bad idea — social media rots your brain and spirit) and I saw some young in’ say that Robert Eggers film, Nosferatu, was for real perverts. And it so perturbed me I decided to craft a list for the real sensualists. A movie can have sex scenes and have little to no sensuality. We are not in a crisis over a lack of sex scenes in American mainstream cinema. We’re in a sensuality crisis in cinema as a whole. I wrote about this in-depth for my newsletter, Madwomen & Muses.
Note: My lists are personal not exhaustive if there is an obvious film, like Fatal Attraction, not on the list it is because I either don’t like…
I was on Bluesky recently (bad idea — social media rots your brain and spirit) and I saw some young in’ say that Robert Eggers film, Nosferatu, was for real perverts. And it so perturbed me I decided to craft a list for the real sensualists. A movie can have sex scenes and have little to no sensuality. We are not in a crisis over a lack of sex scenes in American mainstream cinema. We’re in a sensuality crisis in cinema as a whole. I wrote about this in-depth for my newsletter, Madwomen & Muses.
Note: My lists are personal not exhaustive if there is an obvious film, like Fatal Attraction, not on the list it is because I either don’t like it, don’t want it on the list, or it doesn’t embody the feel I am going for. I consider the lists I craft on Letterboxd as living lists, always evolving and growing. I will keep adding to this list. Nothing is set in stone etc etc. Now back to the show…
This list is for sensualists, perverts, and people who actually fuck. You’ll recognize a few films where there aren’t on-screen sex scenes but implied sexual congress. The reason being that sensuality and perversion can be infused in a film without an undeniable sex scene. Consider Hollywood during the Hays Code. The best filmmakers and writers of the classical Hollywood era excelled at suggestion and innuendo. There was frisson in the repartee of romantic conquests. For all the stringent, even claustrophobic unofficial rules of the Hays Code, filmmakers found ways to infuse sensuality in their work. That sense of mystery and teasing of what is unseen yet undeniable reflects how often the fantasy of a fuck is just as delicious — sometimes more so — than the reality of a fuck.
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