Movies I've Seen With My Parents That I Wish I Hadn't, and Why
- Summer of Sam: Violence, sex, in particular an orgy featuring lesbian sex which made my mother stare at me hoping that at least this movie would force me to confirm or deny my homosexuality
- Chinatown: Incest, despair
- I Am Love: Despair, boredom
- Take This Waltz: Boredom, Torontocest
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My Own Private Idaho - Watched with my aunt many years after DVD had become the dominant format, only we could only find my MOPI on VHS. That meant we had to use my aunt's old VHS player, which was attached to the TV in her bedroom. Rarely in my life have I experienced moments as long and awkward as the one when my aunt and I lay in her bed and watched River Phoenix give head to an overweight man.
For the longest time I had a snippet of a memory in my head regarding an orgy scene I saw in a bad movie somewhere. Having neither the desire to go through the legion of bad movies in my head to try and find it. Now that you've so nicely fit that piece back into the puzzle I can say it totally should have fit sooner. That one scene oddly encapsulated the entire movie, in which everybody assumed shit about other people that wasn't true and acted on it. I think the only original moral of this period piece after school special is that you should never do something you know your boyfriend secretly likes because afterwards he will be ashamed and call you a whore. This holds doubly true for Catholics and also explains the clientele of Seduction on Yonge Street.
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