In a (warning!) spoiler-ridden look at the movie “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” Ily of asexy beast, who chaffs a bit at cultural assumptions that everybody eventually has to hook up, for life, with somebody says
I’ve talked before about the media’s inability to separate sex and love. But this movie ratchets that idea up to 11. Not only does sex magically create love, but sex IN A PORNO creates love. The weird thing was, Zack and Miri were already living together and for all intents and purposes, were spending their lives together. Even though they’d known each other since kindergarten, it had to take having sex in front of cameras for them to realize they cared about each other? How dense could two people be?!
As she puts it, “For a movie that claimed that it had to advertise in stick figures, and that was banned from some theaters, it’s ridiculously unsubversive.” Sounds about right to me.
Submitted by 2734 (not verified) on Tue, 2009-02-24 18:29.
Well, from what I've heard, there *are* some people out there for whom the line between sex and love is very thin - they either immediately fall in love with the last person they had sex with, or else must have sex with the person the fell in love with very soon after that realization or they will quickly fall out of love. And in both cases, the love often lasts only as long as the sex does. And then there are other people for who those two things are completely separate - they can screw anyone without getting emotionally involved but can fall and stay in love with someone without ever having sex with them. I suspect that those are extremes, and most people are somewhere between the two.
Compared to real people, Zack and Mirri are probably unusual, but not unrealistic.