PrintDecember 2, 2004
Re-whitewashing Alfred Kinsey
Hollywood has long been a purveyor of cultural poison, and a magnet for individuals to whom shame is a foreign concept. The trap of letting the facts get in the way of the weaving of a yarn that serves their ends is one they have always dodged quite artfully, but never has the disconnect between image and reality been as acute as in one of their latest efforts, Kinsey.
The movie is based on the life and work of Alfred Kinsey, who wrote two volumes on human sexuality in the late 1940s and early1950s: Sexual behavior in the Human Male and Sexual behavior in the Human Female. The film is directed by homosexual activist Bill Condon, and casts Kinsey as a conscientious but persecuted scientist whose only ambition was to push back the frontiers of ignorance. But the movie is a sanitization of Silkwood decontamination proportions, creating a character who is more reminiscent of a long—lost Kinsey good twin than of Kinsey himself. It is such rank...(Read Full Article)
