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Most moviegoers still have never heard of Bill Condon. But his sharp wit and almost predatory sense for provocative themes are making Condon the next great American auteur. Kinsey, which Condon wrote and directed, will launch his name from the murky depths of IMDB.com forums to the lips of audiences everywhere...
Kinsey, based on Alfred Kinsey, founder of the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, is going to be highly controversial. Condon pulls no punches with Kinsey, choosing to include many of Kinsey’s lesser-known sexual exploits and his very objective (read: non-exclusive) approach to his personal sex life...
...There are things that happened in Kinsey’s life that would have made him more cuddlier,” says Condon, “I was really more concerned about that clinical part of his personality and some of the things that were more difficult about...
...touching on everything from bisexuality to pedophilia, Condon realizes his film is likely to receive some negative scrutiny from conservative commentators. But Condon remains optimistic, knowing that “when you take a subject like this one you know that people like that are waiting for you on the other side. I hope those kind of people won’t run the discussion. I hope it gets broaden[ed] out into the general question: how far have we come...
...into a broader sociological context by dramatizing the fatal flaw of Kinsey’s research and personal sex life. Kinsey was the first person to ever study sex objectively, an inherently flawed occupation because “sex [is] a factory of emotion,” says Condon. This was an “inconvenient thought for [Kinsey] because he was trying to separate sex and study it completely from a scientific perspective...