kinsey

if it were not for the controversial nature of the titular hero of the film ‘kinsey’ would have been a pretty straightforward hollywood biopic – with demi-god like central character, weepy music, a middle high point in career followed by disappointments and let downs, only to remerge stronger at the end. but the fact is that the life albert kinsey on whom this movie is based on had a far more interesting time as he researched the sexual behavior of the american male and female. his studies based on an enormous number of surveys have been accused of being one of the root causes of the sexual promiscuity of the 1960s. its findings are as controversial today as they were then opening up a can of worms in a puritanical america of the 50s. the movie does dwell on his own bisexuality and the experiments he carried out with his staff but did seem to gloss over them a little to make the movie more palatable. i don’t blame it. i did squirm more than once and i consider myself fairly liberal.