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Summary: John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. The characters converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus: a mad nexus of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality. Set in a post-9/11, Bush-exhausted New York City, Shortbus tells its story with sexual frankness, suggesting new ways to reconcile questions of the mind, pleasures of the flesh and imperatives of the heart. (ThinkFilm)
Only watched until the dude ejaculated into his own mouth, which was superduperLOL - then my friend who had seen it before stated he needn't go through it again. Sorta bummer, but I don't think I woulda made it through anyway. Maybe revise score if I do watch past that point sometime.
Depicts a variety of extremely graphic sexual positions to great effect, but doesn't really have enough to say about it. It was definitely intriguing to see auto-fellatio on screen, but probably not worth watching an entire film for.
the best summary of this mainstream "porno-like" cinema bust is that it attempts to be smarter than it really is by trying to provide provocative and thoughtful insights into things such as love, sacrifice, and human relationships while using shallow and uninteresting characters. another "sex-oriented" film that explains absolutely nothing new and certainly nothing intelligent.
Maybe the answer to everything is sex. Maybe not. And while this seems to be the theme of the movie, it would be far too simplistic to refer it like this. Under the outworn sexuality issues, and beneath the sweaty bodies – Some sort of thing is hiding. No human ever named it before, nor will. It is the foundation of any relationship. And it was not meant to be there, and the fact we're entirely on our own, in this fucked up world, has hell of a lot to do with the previous-hideous declaration.
The standard compulsory reaction to this sort of explicitness may be that it lacks imagination or subtlety, but I found myself responding very positively. Between this and Hedwig, I admire the hell out of John Cameron Mitchell. It takes balls to tackle stuff like this in such a direct manner (that is, people on the fringes of "normal" sexual behavior). In any case, there's something decidedly unerotic, but intensely emotional about most of the sex depicted here.
"Shortbus" is plain weird and contains hardcore sexual scenes, but that's hardly what makes it stand out. Although its superficial flashiness makes it endlessly watchable, it is its personality, insight and emotional resonance that also make it memorable.
I don't think "Shortbus" offers more than, say, a less revealing - if you know what I mean - indie picture, but it is worth watching for its characters, which could have easily popped out of any masterpiece on human relationships, and not for the sex scenes, which were definitely not game-changing and, instead of providing enough insight (in the best sense of the word) in connection with the actual act, left the characters merely talking about it, just like many other similar films.
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