(rated R)
Most movies are about sex in one way or another but they don’t talk about sex. Liam Neeson portrays Alfred Kinsey, a 1940s, relentless biologist, who compiled data on waspy types and then eventually all Americans, in order to break myths, learn information and basically be the stepping stone for all those Cosmopolitan sex quizzes women take in magazines today. Laura Linney plays his wife, which is ironic, since last time they worked together as a Puritan couple (the Proctors) in “The Crucible” on Broadway. The movie is nothing short of pure brilliant and original. The tensions work, its fluid artistry works and so does Kinsey’s discoveries, which often challenge morality, disguised as fact. Think Catholics saying, “you can get pregnant if you look at a boy”. Of course with his discoveries, comes a can of worms in issues like homosexuality and infidelity. Timmy Hutton, Chris O’Donnell and Oliver Platt come out of the woodwork, for comeback roles as Kinsey’s gang of guinea pig supporters.
