I have seen this excellent film and wonder why it is hidden away like a monster in a cupboard. It deals partly with an explicit sexual relationship, and yes the lead actor shows his erect penis and the sex real. Both lead actors are not afraid of showing sexual excitement, and James Wortham who is almost dismissed by other reviewers for praise gives a performance that is very fine indeed, and it is ( I hazard a guess ) male reviewers who in the main would rather not see him in this excited state. If he was about to kill someone with an axe or a brutal instrument it would be alright, but no he is just unashamedly and often with great tenderness giving pleasure to another person. That audiences have been stunned by this is beyond my comprehension. Is his penis so shameful that it should be hidden away ? The female genitalia has often been seen on film, and I am thinking especially of the films of Walerian Borowcyck who was praised for such films as ' La Bete ' and considerred by some to be a great director. To make myself clear a woman can simulate sex but a man cannot. This is where the hypocrisy is focussed due to bad sex education and centuries of shame. Above all this film is well made, and the true revelation for me is how much parts of Los Angeles looks like a city from hell with its poor and underprivileged. Now that is something really be shocked about but instead it is the astonished look at the beauty of the sexual act, and especially that part of the male that is usually kept tightly locked up in the attic of our dirty minds.
Review of Now & Later
