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It was hardly an underground thing either. Marilyn Monroe’s first films (recently uncovered, as it were) featured her baring all. Not long after the Lumiére Brothers first exhibited their invention, people were making Kinographs of winsome young ladies in states of undress. Suprisingly, the history of sex in the cinema would seem to back this up. When images so disgusting they can put you off sex for life can be sent to you in emails without asking, why should we be so fearful of two youngish people having a bit of rumpy pumpy to get the image of Bobby Gillespie out of their heads? Hilarious musical observations aside (like I’ll be only one making that joke), what’s so surprising about 9 Songs is not that the British Board of Film Censors passed the film uncut, or that Anne Widdecombe is up in arms (“It is not the board’s role to allow pornography to enter the mainstream”) but that the idea that pornography can be in any way contained still exists. But what may be more offensive are the uncensored live performances from the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Elbow and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. It features 35 minutes of unsimulated sex, including masturbation, full penetration and oral sex. The cinema has long exploited our basest needs but how far are we willing to put up with this? All the way, perhaps?īritish film 9 Songs is the sort of movie guaranteed to get people annoyed. Sex! I knew that would get your attention. (Originally published in Inform Magazine, March 2005)
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