Sex Lies And Videotape Summary
Section 3: A Summary of Research of Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Sex, Lies, and Videotape was an intriguing movie. It showcased a great cast and performances
that kept you wondering what was going to happen next. The movie was obviously being
portrayed from a Freudian perspective, which made the movie even more interesting to watch.
Sex, Lies, and Videotape is a movie about sexual honesty, and emotional deceit. It was
produced with a very low budget at $1.4 million, but oddly enough it won the grand prize at
the Cannes International Film Festival in Baton Rouge, La. Despite the low budget to make
it still managed to gross $13 million at the box office. Though not autobiographical, the film is
personal: Soderbergh …show more content…
“I used to be a pathological liar. … I used to express my feelings
nonverbally, and I used to scare people that I loved, Graham confesses. He’s since become so
tender a listener that women are drawn to him like kittens to cream, and his video library
is chock full of confessional peep shows (Kempley 1). Cynthia, a punky bartender, is a nut-and –
bolts hedonist who is getting even with her prettier, more popular sister—not exactly a
profound motivation, but serviceable. “The idea of doing it in my sister’s bed just gives me a
perverse thrill,” she says to John (Kempley 2). John believes in the Capitalistic ethic: As long
as you can get away with it, it’s okay. Sex, Lies, and Videotape is an absorbing tale of sexual
greed and fear, love and betrayal, in which Graham’s camera becomes a central player.
“It is an intricate dance of constantly changing partners, whose connections are based on truth
self-denial and outright deception (James).” While John and Cynthia is having their own little
affair, Graham and Ann are becoming acquainted with each other. Graham had
Sex, Lies, and Videotape was an intriguing movie. It showcased a great cast and performances
that kept you wondering what was going to happen next. The movie was obviously being
portrayed from a Freudian perspective, which made the movie even more interesting to watch.
Sex, Lies, and Videotape is a movie about sexual honesty, and emotional deceit. It was
produced with a very low budget at $1.4 million, but oddly enough it won the grand prize at
the Cannes International Film Festival in Baton Rouge, La. Despite the low budget to make
it still managed to gross $13 million at the box office. Though not autobiographical, the film is
personal: Soderbergh …show more content…
“I used to be a pathological liar. … I used to express my feelings
nonverbally, and I used to scare people that I loved, Graham confesses. He’s since become so
tender a listener that women are drawn to him like kittens to cream, and his video library
is chock full of confessional peep shows (Kempley 1). Cynthia, a punky bartender, is a nut-and –
bolts hedonist who is getting even with her prettier, more popular sister—not exactly a
profound motivation, but serviceable. “The idea of doing it in my sister’s bed just gives me a
perverse thrill,” she says to John (Kempley 2). John believes in the Capitalistic ethic: As long
as you can get away with it, it’s okay. Sex, Lies, and Videotape is an absorbing tale of sexual
greed and fear, love and betrayal, in which Graham’s camera becomes a central player.
“It is an intricate dance of constantly changing partners, whose connections are based on truth
self-denial and outright deception (James).” While John and Cynthia is having their own little
affair, Graham and Ann are becoming acquainted with each other. Graham had