Four New Yorker critics discuss who is permitted to be nude on TV, why “Succession” owes us an actual sex scene, and what the infantilization of movie audiences has done to eroticism on screen.
We’re talking about “The Hand of God,” the new Paolo Sorrentino movie. The film’s protagonist is a seventeen-year-old boy, Fabietto, whose childhood has been abruptly ended by personal tragedy. And in the film in question he’s given some firm erotic instruction by an older woman who lives upstairs from his family.
In the Paolo Sorrentino movie “Hand of God,” an older woman provides the seventeen-year-old Fabietto with some firm erotic instruction, courtesy of a hairbrush.I didn’t want to be the first one to say that, but, yes, I thought so, too.I think it’s extremely European, you know, even putting aside the fact that it’s a boy who’s barely legal, or not even legal, and a woman who has a lot more experience, and the potential abuse of power.
Reeling from the end of his marriage, William Jackson Harper’s character on “Love Life” goes home with a college student to the N.Y.U. dorms, where she performs a theatrical orgasm.After this happens in the middle of the night or early morning, William Jackson Harper’s character gets up and tiptoes out of the room. There’s a narrator in the show, and the narration is something like, “He walked out knowing that he was just one in a stream of things that would happen to her as she grows up.
Interestingly, to me the show is getting at something about sex, which is its sincerity, because the characters on “Succession” can only ever allow themselves to say something that can be interpreted as its opposite. When anyone says something possibly tender, possibly emotional, it has to be framed in such a way that it could just be a joke and you’re an idiot for believing it. Look at Roman.
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