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KINSEY (Rated 18)
The fact that we can talk freely about sex these days is largely due to one man. Alfred C. Kinsey. Bill Condon, the talented writer-director of ‘Gods and Monsters’, has created a smart, stirring and at times very amusing biopic of this chap who transformed modern attitudes to jiggery-pokery. Starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney, Kinsey tells the fascinating story of how this one-time entomologist dropped the study of wasp stings for human orgasms. What made his approach so revolutionary were the oneon-one interviews he undertook in order to gain an honest appreciation of what makes men’s libidos tick. The film also aims to understand the man himself using flashbacks to explain his repressed childhood and youth. At home, Kinsey’s father (John Lithgow) was so uptight that he would rail against everything from cigarettes to zippers (they aid fornication, apparently). The results of Kinsey’s findings in 1948 still make up the liberal bed of today’s knowledge: masturbation is nearly universal among young men, oral sex is popular and not perverted, and homosexuality is far more widely practiced than once supposed. Over 50 years on, with conservatism and religious fundamentalism still gripping much of America, this movie’s message about sexuality is perhaps more relevant than ever before.
Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Intelligent biopic with sex appeal
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