Movie Review: Kinsey

[sarahmichelef]

I'm showing Kinsey to my class tomorrow, so I watched it last night to know what I'm getting into. ;^)

In general, I really enjoyed the movie. Liam Neeson and Laura Linney were fantastic. It's not action-packed (hey, it is a biopic) but there is more sex than I thought there would be. ;^) It does a good job of showing how Kinsey went from being a taxonomist to being a sexologist, and some of what drove him towards the maniacal pursuit of his research. I think it will prompt some interesting discussion among my students.

There should have been more Tim Curry, though. ;^)

Comments

[irihs.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the review. I keep seeing it at the video store, and wondering whether we should rent it. I didn't know Laura Linney or Time Curry were in it, which I guess goes to show how much I've actually researched the movie, eh? ;-)

[cranky-dragon.livejournal.com]

I got to see Kinsey for free when it came out, as the reward for getting the highest grade on my Psychology of Sexuality midterm. :-p

Neeson and Linney were indeed fantastic. The movie does gloss over a lot of the ethical issues of Kinsey's research (though it brings some of them up, I think it kind of just drops them). And of course it takes plenty of liberties with Kinsey's biography. It's a good movie either way. :)