kinsey--oh kinsey.

the movie has haunted me since i saw it on monday--its a hard movie to watch, a complicted, morally ambigous, deeply moving, deeply erotic, deeply funny movie.

its one thats well acted, thats solid, that moves and that does not manipulate.

it points out what mr kinsey taught us, that sexuality was not a binary, not a distinct set of idenities, but a series of practices--and these practices can be made into patterns that resmeble others patterns

that love is not evasive, that love (and consent and respect and desire and mutual entwining) is the great intangible, but really the only thing that matters.

it showed a man destroyed by his work, destroyed by the processes he put into place, destroyed by others ambitions and others hatred and his own immutable curiousity...and it was also the most queer film of the year...

(kinsey and his grad asst cylde are in a hotel room in chicago, getting ready for bed, when clyde asks him where on the scale he is--this conversation leads to clyde seducing kinsey, and thn seducing kinseys wife--and the three of them get together and fall apart w/o any catacylsms.)

(chris o donnell suggests a tumble at the end of a garden party---this tumble results in a jeslousy that almost splits apart the team)

(kinsey gives his father a questionarre after his mothers funeral, and kinseys father admits to having to wear a chasity belt)

(kinsey's son is deeply prudishly embarrassed at the frank dinner table talks)

(kinsey punctures his penis w. a straight pin, attenmpting to understand masochism, it just hurts, and kinseys wife cradles him, begging him to end the pain)

(kinsey and chris o donnel interview a man who has had sex with everything, and o donnell is so offended that he storms out of the room--the subject says he thot that kinsey was supposed to be non judgemental, that he was more sqaure then he imagined---kinsey replies, that anything can be done, b/w adults, with consent--a morality devolps.)

(kinsey becomes a preacher)

there is so much more...people need to see this film.

my father told me that kinsey was one of his heros, and i think he is mine as well