Review of Kinsey (2004) by Britany B — 28 Mar 2013

The film and as an extension, Liam Neeson, did justice to the often times complicated, isolated, and obsessed researcher that was Dr. Kinsey while still, overall, portraying him in a positive light. The film has received its fair amount of criticism on that note. Sometimes it pays off to play it safe, but on a biopic featuring a man of this stature and a topic of this variety -- safe is the last thing you want your film to portray.

They could have worked a lot harder developing and discussing the relationships that Kinsey made throughout his life. The film did a nice job in regard to the relationship between he and his wife -- but relationships between he and his colleagues / project staff and more importantly the relationship between he and his father were not on point or missing entirely.

It would have been more fascinating for the film to spend more time on the beginning of his life. Pondering how he grew and why he focused on sexual behavior. And to some extent -- explain his own obsessive and secluded behavior. If anything, it seems like that very backdrop would have set up the rest of the film beautifully and allowed for it to walk the line of safe and dangerous much more closely than it did.

Alfred Kinsey by all accounts began this new cultural fascination with openness toward sex and sexual behavior and overall, Bill Condon made a more than acceptable film.