This was the first of the videos that started a trend of sex education videos in the early 1990s . I guess the idea behind it was for liberated women to go into a high street store and buy it without any type of guilt or inhibition , but no doubt the main buyer market was teenage boys and dirty old men
THE LOVERS GUIDE is groundbreaking in the fact that it publicised that the couples involved were real life partners but this is slightly dishonest , yes the main couple featured Wendy and her husband were indeed a real life couple who'd been married several years but there was some public controversy that at least one of the couples Kathryn ( The gorgeous brunette ) and Marino ( The well buffed geezer with a ponytail ) had never met one another until they appeared on set where they had unprotected sex for the camera . For a video that self righteously dedicates segments to safe sex it is rather hypocritical
Seeing as it's for education purposes and not pornography as such there's limits as to what can be shown but as a sex education video it's not uninformative though I doubt if you'll be gasping " I never knew that "
As a footnote the main couple featured became something of sexual problem agony aunts in the British press - Until it was revealed that Wendy's husband had a serious heart condition which put a stop to sex . I almost felt sorry for this couple who confessed that they used to make love as often as ten times a day but now couldn't make love once a day because it was too dangerous . My small amount of sympathy soon vanished when shortly afterwards the couple split up and raced off to the gutter press in order to dish the dirt on one another to the highest bidder .
很古早味的气质，施拉德老爷子一贯喜欢讲的故事
有点半意识流的味道？节奏实属很慢了，但奥斯卡这个脸我真的还能再看五小时🥺
事实证明，再有钱也不要随便给人钱，可能会害死别人
和kid 1v1的时候我还以为sm开始了，裤子都脱了就这proposal。吐血 莫名其妙大烂片
能理解导演想表达的意思，许多镜头设计也很好，看了许多评论，确实导演反类型，反高潮的风格，不是我的菜。
[2021.09.29 @K11AH] +，摄影、构图、色调都挺好的，剧本太弱了。
牌场较量很有趣又出彩。
5.2 PTSD的高级包装，信息的简化促进人物和观感处于失控的紧绷感，除了奥斯卡在其他角色都是多余的
最后 男主与其女友在看守所隔着玻璃食指相抵 还是很有感情哒 呃。。。。。女友的指甲太长吧。。。顶在玻璃上有点搞笑 有点出戏ヾ(。￣□￣)ツ
很难再看到的经过精密计算的电影，而且在剧作“运算”的过程中也保证了内容的可看度。注释性文本与机制的解读类似说明书般将电影进行操控，《Taxi Driver》式的情绪暗涌又把机械的运作齿轮打破，于是整部电影前后段的对峙就进入了一个僵局：慵懒、任性的自我与抗争、博弈的命运间的冰点，如同牌局一般满是疑点、猜忌，但最后都要走向胜负一方的毁灭和结束。
奥斯卡太辣太帅了，剧情比较平淡，但是结局还不错
高开低走，因为配乐和奥斯卡的脸值得一看。三星给鱼眼镜头的噩梦部分，男主角阴影下的脸太迷人了，配乐也可以。爱情线尬到我脚趾抠出巨型陨石坑。而且也没看出算牌和主线有什么联系，其实不算牌，是个谨慎的小偷或者抢劫犯故事都不会受到影响啊！我不理解。
BD:2022.7.12 , 这部电影太合我的胃口了。气氛，故事，配乐歌曲........《电影手册》2021年十佳片单 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/KHXu03_aqzOfikew3vbPAQ； 保罗·约瑟夫·施拉德出生于1946年7月22日，是美国著名的剧作家、电影导演、电影评论家，最为人们称道的是他的剧本，其中最有名的是他和马丁·斯科赛斯合作的《出租车司机》和《愤怒的公牛》。
深渊永远是深渊，凝视是残忍的，无论如何视而不见，它总就在那里。(没看懂、也不会再看….
施拉德这样的人有多宝贵，他对黑色电影语境的界定犹如自我编撰的“罪人”背负十字架一遍遍在轮转的自我鞭挞中自省、内置，隐忍，教诲意义不在于对人的警示和震慑，而是那种由内的精神超脱。反高潮处理几乎与一切类型模式对着干，对现代精神萎靡现象的痛斥，对资本的不屑，对情感淡化的抵触，大喊USA的精神爱国者不加掩饰的嘲讽好似丑角。除去对他本人文艺精神的赞叹和片中几处意象化处理，情节设置问题还是挺大的，节奏把握和情感线的落差实在是无法忽视，Issac倒是眼神够味儿
中段冗长而毫无调度的对话戏太多了，几乎毁灭掉了观感。其实亮点还是比较明显的，把一个高概念的娱乐性的元素解构成逃避内心阴影的手段，从算牌的桥段中得不到任何心理上的爽感，而唯一的释放恰恰是主角最终割弃牌桌直面痛苦完成自我的救赎。问题就在于后者也并没有处理得很好……
4.5.将赌博算牌人与虐囚军士的身份摆放在一个人身上，创造出一种内在永恒的撕扯：赌博看似狂欢却内里要求克制，军士看似严谨纪律却唯有癫狂才可生存。国家责任与个体道德，绝望与救赎，正像是《出租车司机》数十年后的延续，唯有悲剧性的自我牺牲与毁灭，才勉强创造出刹那闪烁却又即刻消散的微光。为死者复仇，亦或者为往昔估价，是永远无法成功的徒劳。在赌博场兴奋喊着USA的人们，为已然碎裂的梦，标上时代空洞的注脚——那里没有责任，也没有痛苦，那里只剩下自我麻痹的幻觉，以及必然苏醒的虚无。
'You win, you walk away. You lose, you walk away.' 片尾的转折多加1分，本来以为会是个温情故事。
另一种《出租车司机》，老派故事套上了新的外壳。本人对赌博这种手段，算是救赎？完全无感……
男主很有型 片子虽沉闷 手法却是我喜欢的类型
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