No Panties
After Belle de Jour last week, I’ve now seen Basic Instinct for the first time, whose erotic scenes are perhaps even more frequently referenced. A friend who reached puberty in the early 90’s claims that it had a formative effect on his sexuality. I began the movie expecting to laugh, but found myself completely engrossed in both the suspense and the eroticism.
The lover of old movies in me was tickled by the frequent references to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, a favorite of mine. Both movies are very sexual, but in different ways - Basic Instinct contains several scenes meant to arouse the viewer, whereas Vertigo is, to me, more an exploration of the nature of obsessive desire and what drives it rather than an immediate turn-on.
Indeed, the view of sex in Vertigo usually leaves me in a sober state, wondering if happiness and desire can ever co-exist. And of course, I wind up watching it over and over again.
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