In the end, I did not think Kinsey was a very good film. The film seems determined to shock us. It wants to show us the true story behind Alfred Kinsey. But it all comes across as very forced. Collage kids (and the film audience) are shown a slide depicting penatration. They are shocked. The collage kids have never had sex. What a shock. Kinsey's research shows that women do masturbate after all. What a shock that in Kinsey's era they didn't know all this. Kinsey's father, naturaly, was sexualy repressed. The film has some decent scenes, and provides great laughs. But it loses credability when we are asked to believe that in the 1950's, families would talk in ways that by today's standards are extremely explicit. Ultimiately, I would recomend the movie as a comedy, merely because the drama is just the same recycled preach for sexual liberation against the establishment that we have seen in many different better movies.
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Great movie, but not for kids.
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Parents need to know that this movie has very graphic and explicit sexual references and situations, including clinical and informal discussions and depictions of a wide range of sexual experiences and activities, including adultery and homosexuality. Characters use extremely strong language including clinical and slang terms for sexual acts. Characters drink and smoke. The movie includes some tense emotional scenes and some minor scuffling. A strength of the movie is its depiction of early concerns about equal treatment for women and minorities, including gays and lesbians.
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Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about why Kinsey's work created such an uproar. How do we know -- how do we decide -- what "normal" means? Could anyone be as controversial today as Kinsey was in the 1950s? Why does Mac laugh after meeting Kinsey's parents? What does that tell you about her? What made it possible for Kinsey to be a different kind of father to his children than his father was to him? What did Kinsey learn from his interview with his father? Why were Kinsey and his staff so wrong about the impact that their sexual experimentation would have on their wives?
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- I rate this title iffy for age 2 and give it
It tries to say something, but typical studio filmaking brings it down
- I rate this title iffy for age 17 and give it
Not a kids movie at all - but great work
The common sense review of this is very good. It points out the extremely good values that end up getting passed along in this movie. The idea of being "normal" or not and who is to tell who is or isn't normal is a great question for older teens to deal with in the context of sexual behavior. However, adults who might be turned off by sexual images, nudity, casual adultery, etc. might be taken off guard by this movie's frankness with which it deals with all of these subjects. I'm sure it portrays the researchers pretty accurately, but it can be disturbing to adults - and definitely to kids. Parents should know that there is full frontal male nudity and open wife-swapping in many of the scenes and between the researchers, who are supposedly friends. The best scene in the movie is where Prok realizes that it is his wife (not his research) that gives him roots and her love that gets him through. Although it's a round about way of getting to such a loving point, this movie is well done if you are up for it.
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NOT GOOD FOR TEENS UNDER 16
very sexual
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