There are orgies, raunchy games of truth & dare, and all varieties of kinks and perversions. The club is run by "drag legend" Justin Bond. A former mayor of New York spends his time there, philosophizing and looking for a kiss or two. The title refers to an offbeat sex club where anything goes. This isn't exactly a surprising or interesting insight, and Shortbus doesn't do much with it besides state the obvious and belabor the point. Mitchell's big point is that sex does not necessarily equate with intimacy and one can still be lonely despite having a constant bed-partner. There are some promising moments early on, as when everyone sheds a tear of sadness after orgasming (or, in Sonia's case, not orgasming). The problem with Shortbus is that it is dramatically uninteresting and thinks it's more profound than it actually is. Her apartment overlooks the former World Trade Center site, which leads to the following question: When you're taking a picture at Ground Zero, do you smile? After all, as one of them remarks, "Monogamy is for straight people." The fourth participant in these proceedings is dominatrix Severin (Linsday Beamish), who hides her real identity and loneliness behind a facade that includes whips and leather outfits. Two of her clients are Jamie and James (P J DeBoy and Paul Dawson), a gay pair who are considering opening up their five-year old relationship to give it some spice. For her, Shortbus becomes the quest for one, much like in dozens of porn films. Sonia (Sook-Yin Lee) is a sex therapist/couples counselor who has never achieved an orgasm. This is probably intended to say something about society's penchant for voyerism, although if director John Cameron Mitchell ( Hedwig and the Angry Inch) is trying to make a more specific point, he doesn't achieve it.
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Nearly everything in the movie is either being photographed or recorded. Technology plays a big part in these scenes and others. There are two "money shots" and lots of positions. There are four protagonists, and we're introduced to them during an opening scene that features urination in a bathtub, domination, sex toys, auto-fellatio, and hard-core heterosexual action (with penetration). The storyline is juvenile and the characters remain poorly developed and incomplete.
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Although Shortbus doesn't work as porn (and I don't believe it's intended to), it also doesn't work as a serious drama. Such a division of opinion is expected when a filmmaker crosses the daring line of combining narrative with hard-core sex scenes. Some think it's a masterpiece (or nearly so). More power to it.With something as controversial as Shortbus, you can never get a sense of what you're in for based on word-of-mouth, especially when there's no consensus. I suspect, however, that "Shortbus" really is the wave of the future, particularly in forward-looking societies. At the very least, the film is a welcome change from your mainstream Hollywood assembly-line cinematic trash. It is a cinematic theme that is much needed in America, where hatred and intolerance toward all things nonconforming seriously risk diversity of thought and behavior. Unorthodox both in substance and style, in a society that too often demands traditional correctness, "Shortbus" is Mitchell's cinematic plea for cultural compassion and mercy, tolerance and acceptance. And the film's music captures a progressive feel, and varies from nouveau jazz to the stirring humanistic anthem "In The End", performed by the entire cast, and led with flair by Justin Bond. The film's costumes and production design are terrific. I especially liked Justin Bond, the club's tour guide.
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Most of the characters are to varying degrees pleasantly unique. The film's sex scenes are explicit and graphic, but never exploitative. The film's weak plot steers them to the Shortbus, wherein sex and open relationships trump everything else in life, as if people obsess about sex every minute of every day. DeBoy), consult a young sex therapist named Sofia (Sook-Yin Lee) who, as it turns out, is in need of some therapy herself.
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As a gay couple with relationship problems, James (Paul Dawson) and Jamie (P.J. Director John Cameron Mitchell dares to take a retro-clinging America into the twenty-first century with this brave, humanistic art-house film wherein an ensemble cast of little known actors and numerous non-actors portray characters exploring emotions and relationships in a New York City underground club called the Shortbus.