It’s a two-fer today:
Watching ordinary people making love, with occasional fumbles and aches, rather than idealized screen gods and goddesses in the throes of heaving, orchestra-backed passion, compels us to reflect on our personal knowledge of the connection between desire and affection.
One of time’s cruelest jests is its tendency to transform us into what we once despised.
— Joel E. Siegel
Joel E. Siegel was the arts reviewer for a number of papers in DC, most recently The Washington City Paper and while I didn’t always agree with is opinion, his reviews were always interesting to read. He died last week at 64. His cynicism and wit will be missed.
Dun usually like screen sex — tends to eliminate the essential point of all that to me: vulnerability.
Makin’ love is that ultimate compromise, but put on celluloid it takes on a more egocentric, glorifying edge to it.
RIP to Siegel.
What intrigued me most about the first quote is the last bit: our personal knowledge of the connection between desire and affection.
S’actly. On screen s’just just a masturbatory fantasy, between two people (hopefully) it’s a matter of wanting to let someone, wanting to be let — something a little more modest, lil more gentle.