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8-1/2 WOMEN

“Semi-Pretentious X-pose”

Family Content: -4 Intentional blasphemy, evil, gross immorality, and/or worldview problems. (To be avoided)

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Stylistic director Peter Greenaway’s 8-1/2 WOMEN is a semi-pretentious, boring movie about a rich Englishman and his son, who establish a sex harem on their estate in Geneva, Switzerland. After the rich man’s wife, and the son’s mother, dies unexpectedly, the son tries to console his father with a tryst with the son’s Japanese lover. Afterwards, they decide to start collecting a harem of women at their palatial estate. When a woman who has long been pursuing the father comes to live there, the son becomes jealous of the one woman he cannot have. Eventually, all the women leave, and the father dies.

Although this basic story description sounds cohesive, 8-12 WOMEN is constructed in a haphazard fashion. The dialogue is aimless, consisting of rather mundane, silly discussions about sex, happiness and obsession with male private parts. Although most of the sex is implied rather than depicted, the movie is filled with explicit nudity and contains plenty of obscenities and profanities. Hedonism, prostitution, blackmail, and jealousy all play major roles in the story, which includes strong anti-Christian content, such as blasphemy and sexual mockery and humiliation of Roman Catholic nuns

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(PaPaPa, ABABAB, LLL, V, SSS, NNN, A, D, MMM) Strong pagan worldview with strong anti-Christian content that includes sexual mockery & humiliation of Roman Catholic nuns; 30 obscenities, 32 profanities & blasphemous attitudes; some mild violence such as man bloodies other man’s nose & pig accidentally drinks poisoned milkshake; strong implied sex & much discussion about sex & people’s private parts; extreme explicit nudity; alcohol use; smoking; and, strong miscellaneous immorality, including gambling, Japanese family sells young woman to foreigners as sex slave because she has high gambling debts, prostitution, promiscuity, sado-masochism discussed briefly, hedonism, nihilism, jealousy, & blackmail.

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Stylistic director Peter Greenaway’s 8-1/2 WOMEN is a semi-pretentious, boring movie about a rich Englishman and his son, who establish a sex harem on their estate in Geneva, Switzerland. After the rich man’s wife, and the son’s mother, dies unexpectedly, the son tries to console his father with a tryst with the son’s Japanese lover. Afterwards, they decide to start collecting a harem of women at their palatial estate. When a woman who has long been pursuing the father comes to live there, the son becomes jealous of the one woman he cannot have. Eventually, all the women leave, and the father dies.
Although this basic story description sounds cohesive, 8-12 WOMEN is constructed in a haphazard fashion. The dialogue is aimless, consisting of rather mundane, silly discussions about sex, happiness and obsession with male private parts. Although most of the sex is implied rather than depicted, the movie is filled with explicit nudity and contains plenty of obscenities and profanities. Hedonism, prostitution, blackmail, and jealousy all play major roles in the story, which includes strong anti-Christian content, such as blasphemy and sexual mockery and humiliation of Roman Catholic nuns.