Wow, given that the play explicitly is about extramarital sex and posits more than one occasion of it, I find it hard to believe it was even *made* into a film in the Code era. Like why bother, if the main points of the movie aren't to be talked about (not that extramarital sex is the main point, but women's sexual desire and the fact that desires for sex and commitment don't infallibly break along genital lines).
That quote you highlighted is great. About many things--not just sexual mores--I came to the conclusion that people just lied/didn't share their reality. Not out of a desire to deceive others, just because the loudly proclaimed societal norms don't match lived experience.
to add insult to injury, it stars Ronald Reagan --I laughed.
The heroine, incidentally, feels terrific object empathy for telephones that no one answers and radios no one is listening to, which hasn't dated in the least, either. --SO TRUE. And a lovely detail. And reminds me of this tweet.
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That quote you highlighted is great. About many things--not just sexual mores--I came to the conclusion that people just lied/didn't share their reality. Not out of a desire to deceive others, just because the loudly proclaimed societal norms don't match lived experience.
to add insult to injury, it stars Ronald Reagan --I laughed.
The heroine, incidentally, feels terrific object empathy for telephones that no one answers and radios no one is listening to, which hasn't dated in the least, either. --SO TRUE. And a lovely detail. And reminds me of this tweet.