scenes of a sexual nature (2006). directed by ed blum.

i don't enjoy assembled cast hollywood films. i don't remember the last time i watched one and actually like it. i often find it lame, pretentious and worse of all, not funny. personally i think it is a waste of talent pool, but come christmas and valentine's day, there usually be droves of assembled cast feel good films that hardly feels... joyful. 

defeats the purpose, eh?

there are many things i like about this movie. apparently it is an assembled cast film but since i don't know a lot of british actors, it is refreshing to see people who are actors acting as opposed to famous hollywood actors acting. actors should become the part, not the other way round. i don't pay to see a movie to see leonardo di caprio acting to be leonardo di caprio because i want leonardo di caprio to be whoever the script wants him to be. off tangent, my bad. but that's my point why i hate assembled cast hollywood films. 

this movie is about the misadventures people encounter in their search for love, and specifically, sex. i find most of the subplots interesting, for example the story of iris and eddie, the old couple who at last met after 50 years of looking for one another. another one involves pete and molly, the divorced couple who are so happy despite the fact that they are dissolving their marriage. the funniest has got to be noel's persistent bad day when a woman proposed sex to him in the park only to call it off half way through and he was left with his white preppy flat butt in the air, pants in the ankle. he is naive and too honest, and it should not come as a surprise why women immediately take him for a pervert. 

is love about being together while letting our partners do what they like although it is displeasing to us? is love sex, and vice versa? could love come in to our life if only we could stop being defensive and take a little joke about ourselves? could love be paid in money, secret meetings and far away holidays?

louis said it best - it is easy to love someone, not so to like them.