Under the Skin . Metro Pulse . Images of lascivious, half-clothed men and women are used to promote everything from car batteries to dish detergent. Sex can turn us into stark raving lunatics who will sacrifice everything we hold sacred for the rush of something we don't really understand.
Erotic imagery is more prevalent in the movies than just about anywhere else.
The ad for a recent Pulp Fiction rip-off, which shall remain nameless, featured a tantalizingly brief glimpse of two young cuties going at it, even though they don't come anywhere near each other in the film. Sometimes what is left on the cutting room floor will make for better promotion than what is kept in. Consider the movie poster for Carine Adler's Under the Skin . I hope that this misleading promotional layout was the brainchild of Adler's marketing people and not her idea, because the hormone-charged angle goes against everything that this movie is trying to say. At the risk of sounding like a pervert, the film didn't have enough actual sex, not to make the point that it wanted to make.