Short Bus

This movie made me really uncomfortable, I honestly struggled to sit through the first 10 minutes and even through the triangle right in the middle of the movie with the three gay men. I felt very uncomfortable with it. I had a hard time with the movie not only from those scenes but with the film as a whole. Many films in enjoy have  a root of good verse’s evil, they are action packed, and yes violent. I enjoy them for humor, but I like the struggle of the good character overcoming adversity or a villain and coming out on top. I struggle with this film because it is something I normally would have turned off in the first 3 minutes, but more then that I would have probably never went out of my way to watch it in the first place. I can’t really relate to the characters because they really didn’t give us much to go on. They explain briefly the background but not in enough detail to really understand it as a whole. I enjoy other kinds of movies besides just action films. I like abstract ideas that are depicted in film. But really this film at no point had me captivated, most of the movie I found myself asking myself why am I watching this, I really don’t like this, some of the film was cleverly done, but I couldn’t understand where most of the characters were coming from other than Sofia wanting the orgasm she had never had. I struggled with James because he sent so many mixed signals all the time, I felt bad for him for his struggles but I suppose I to an extent scratched my head and wondered what he was thinking. He was in love with Jamie but he wouldn’t have sex with him, but the stalker guy at the end he almost had sex with him? I felt like I was watching a soap opera with explicit realistic sex.

The difference that we discussed between this film and porn is the emotion we see in the sex they were depicting, this was real sex, it wasn’t so much fabricated like porn is, and it focused on the individual, and not on parts of the individual. I struggled with this film because the way it came off is that people are only driven by sex, and almost nothing else. I don’t agree with this, I do believe sex is something everyone wants but this film made it seem as though that is all we as individuals want at least most of the film. There were times like when Severin and James talk about wanting to have real interactions with people other than sexually, but it was almost as though everyone else was driven primarily by sex. Severin and James however found themselves struggling with having normal relations with people because they have had to many sexual encounters with people. So could this be telling us something that sleeping around causes issues with people having normal relationships?