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Sex Lie And Videotape

Section 3: A Summary of Research of Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Sex, Lies, and Videotape was an intriguing movie. It showcased a great cast and performances

that kept you wondering what was going to happen next. The movie was obviously being

portrayed from a Freudian perspective, which made the movie even more interesting to watch.

Sex, Lies, and Videotape is a movie about sexual honesty, and emotional deceit. It was

produced with a very low budget at $1.4 million, but oddly enough it won the grand prize at

the Cannes International Film Festival in Baton Rouge, La. Despite the low budget to make

it still managed to gross $13 million at the box office. Though not autobiographical, the film is

personal: Soderbergh was not a sexual interrogator, but he was in a relationship where he

behaved much like the film's adulterous husband, hurting someone he was close to.

The movie revolves around two women and two men. Each character has their own

little set of problems this eventually surfaces. In the film, a women by the name of Ann

is a repressed housewife. She has a lot of worries that she can’t seem to explain. She claims

that sex “is overrated—I think that business about women wanting it just as much as men is

crap.”   But her biggest worry is over whether or not her husband, John is having an affair. The

marriage lacks any sparks plus the fact that John is having sex on a regular basis with Ann’s

sister. Later, in the movie a man by the name of Graham arrives. He is friends with John, but

the reunion doesn’t go well. Graham isn’t your typical guy; he has a weird “hobby.” He likes to

videotape women talking about their sex lives. On the tapes are weirdly clinical interviews with

innumerable women about their sex lives, which Graham uses ostensibly for masturbation, but

on a deeper, unconscious level to interrogate the riddle of the eternal feminine.   Sometimes his

subjects do more than just...