Indie Sex

The documentary Indie Sex is interesting, but not as comprehensive or deep as I'd hoped.

A lot of talking heads, not much beyond people giving their impressions about how sex in movies has changed over the years.

It's cut into 3 episodes: Censored, Teens and Extremes. I suppose the subjects are fairly self explanatory. Each episode gives a light dusting of information but no one really seems to get too into any of the subjects that much. As the title suggests there is a heavy leaning towards independent movies (the show first played on IFC) and how you can generally explore more in an indie flick than you can in a studio picture (big surprise there, let me tell you) but it's still okay. I don't feel like I wasted my time or my money, I just felt like they could have done so much more with the time they had. Also, I think they could have done a better job had they been given more time. I've seen the history of sex in just the silent era take more than 2 hours in the past, so doing it in 10 minutes felt a little rushed.

I kind of wish there was more depth, more real history, but it is at least a bit more scholarly than just people panting over dirty movies and saying "Oh this movie is soooo hot!" so I guess that's something.

I would just have liked a little more solid history and less talking heads filling time until they get to talk about the movies they made.