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Made in Heaven (1987)
Love is yet another four-letter word.
Love is absurd. Heaven is absurd. A movie about love and heaven may also be absurd or render the absurdity of love and heaven as palpable, revealing and refreshing. This movie truncates two lifetimes into two hours and leaves you with the sense that, for at least some of us, love is all that more powerful when we allow for the supernatural, the absurd components, to mix with biology. The fascinating consideration is that the woman was made (four-letter word for conceived) in Heaven and only subsequently was earth-bound. The existentialism is indeed fascinating in spite of the temporal truncation. As the poet Michael Biscardi has written, "There are some truths that serve where facts do not."
Body Shots (1999)
A movie about truth.
This movie is about truth, not primarily about sex. It is about truth in the context of youthful, exuberant, sometimes sloppy, sometimes sweet sex. There are only two scene sequences for which we know what really happened. For the others, including and especially the one involving Sara, it's almost impossible to know what really happened. There have been many other movies about different perspectives on truth, but this one looks at in terms of Gen X verbal sexual explicitness and candidness and the ever-present presence and influence of alcohol. Why do people, over and over, stupify themselves before engaging in what otherwise can be so sublimly beautiful? What do we risk? At the least, what is uttered early in the movie: "Did we ...? ... No? I'm glad .. I would like to be able to remember it." (Or something like that.) This movie is about how the risk-taking associated with modern sexual escapades challenges our ability to later understand the truth of what the escapade was all about.