Amy's Orgasm felt a lot like a New York film. The style, the music...if I hadn't known that Sex and the City was already in season 3 or 4 by then, I could have sworn that they copied their style from this movie!
Similar to Sex and the City, Amy's Orgasm is told like the early seasons of SatC, with the female main character telling us who she is, why she is who she is, etc. We get some friends and relatives of her to add some contrast or different opinions and a fairly common plot line that is used as the vehicle to give us some actually rather useful insights into a lot of female assumptions and insecurities.
Frankly, I don't understand why the movie is rated so low. Maybe because it's from 2001? I'm quite sure if it was made in today's super woke and "women are superior in every way and need no man" misandric society, this movie would easily score a 7-8 from young women (the same kind that actually thought ANY of the women on Sex and the City would be a role model, while really, they're anything but).
I did like that it didn't give us all those man-hating and hypocritical messages that today's movies throw at us. Amy is at least seeing some of her flaws.
Plot-wise, yeah, it's not that realistic or makes a lot of sense. But I think sometimes it's ok if the message is ultimately a life-affirming one, rather than all those messages today that support hook-up culture and hypergamy.
The Orgasm from the title has to be seen as a more metaphorical than physical one. It's less about the penetration of the body and more about the penetration of the walls we built around us and taking a leap of faith.
In that sense, it's a very nice little movie that I could imagine to view again. I give it a strong 6/10.
Similar to Sex and the City, Amy's Orgasm is told like the early seasons of SatC, with the female main character telling us who she is, why she is who she is, etc. We get some friends and relatives of her to add some contrast or different opinions and a fairly common plot line that is used as the vehicle to give us some actually rather useful insights into a lot of female assumptions and insecurities.
Frankly, I don't understand why the movie is rated so low. Maybe because it's from 2001? I'm quite sure if it was made in today's super woke and "women are superior in every way and need no man" misandric society, this movie would easily score a 7-8 from young women (the same kind that actually thought ANY of the women on Sex and the City would be a role model, while really, they're anything but).
I did like that it didn't give us all those man-hating and hypocritical messages that today's movies throw at us. Amy is at least seeing some of her flaws.
Plot-wise, yeah, it's not that realistic or makes a lot of sense. But I think sometimes it's ok if the message is ultimately a life-affirming one, rather than all those messages today that support hook-up culture and hypergamy.
The Orgasm from the title has to be seen as a more metaphorical than physical one. It's less about the penetration of the body and more about the penetration of the walls we built around us and taking a leap of faith.
In that sense, it's a very nice little movie that I could imagine to view again. I give it a strong 6/10.