Review of Kinsey (2004) by Brian F — 07 May 2013

Lead actor Liam Nilsson did a better job acting the part than the Kinsey did (in the features). Period costumes, automobiles, and furniture in the movie was impeccable. The theme of the checkered background throughout the filming was in particular effective and the movie made an enjoyable journey of the numbers about sex, because it wasn't particularly a display of sex at all.

Nice angle to some umpteen hundred statistics and a great screenplay and directors adaptation and his last name of "Condon", was an appropriate name for the movie. The three young interviewees Chris O'Donnell, Timothy Hutton and Peter Sarsgard (Maggie Gyllenhaal's husband) kept the humor alive, too.

The perky wife was another great cast for performers who all seemed really into their character. Full frontal nudity was a shock even though the movie was about sex, but mind you, the study of sexual behavior, that took on an academic tone from the very beginning.

This movie is not a Timothy Leary's viewpoint of the subject matter at all, so the stark naked shot was a bit edgy, or over the edge since we are all programmed to have the camera switch angles when actors disrobe; in this particular scene, you kept waiting for the camera to change angles and it never happened.

A unique scene that even though I was watching it alone, I was a tad bit embarrassed, and more shocked that it stayed glued on the naked subject matter from head to toe as he stripped down to nothing.