After all, it s not as though obeying civil and criminal laws was ever going to become optional. That s why it isn t a coincidence that the sexual revolution is the most enduring cultural legacy of the sixties. This is why filmmakers are so dependent on sex. It s the only way they can depict the world they imagine a world with no boundaries or restrictions on personal freedom. If That s why films like Pleasantville, and Shakespeare In Love are only the tip of a very large iceberg.
Film directors fancy themselves as portrayers of a new world.
And in this new world, before anything worthwhile gets done, people need to tell us that they re free from the shackles of the past. And the bed is the soapbox of choice in Hollywood. Copyright 1999 Roberto Rivera. All rights reserved. International copyright secured.