![]() ![]() Get it? Thanks to a highly charged striptease, Schwarzenegger comes to appreciate Curtis’ true potential as a wife and the family stays together-which is the important thing.īut it’s unfair to suggest that “casual sex” is the only concern of this movie. That’s because the guy who is paying for sex is really Schwarzenegger, the husband, only he is in disguise. Just when you think that Dole has gone off his rocker and that this might not be the best message to be sending to young people, it turns out to be OK. government, which evidently goes in for that sort of thing. Suddenly, she is transformed into a perfect sex object as defined by the would-be philanderer: “She’s just like them all-when you get their pilot lit they can suck-start a leaf blower.” What follows is a detailed exposition on Curtis’ anatomy, including an odd favorable comparison to that of a 10-year-old boy, but this being an old-fashioned family newspaper, as opposed to the Murdoch empire, I’ll spare you the details.Īnyway, pedophilia is clearly not promoted by this movie, since the ensuing erotica tends to be decidedly heterosexual adult S&M, in which Curtis must squirm through an inquisition before she is compelled to become a hooker working for the U.S. This indifference to his wife gives way to intense interest when Schwarzenegger meets a man who lusts after her. Her husband replies absent-mindedly, “That’s good thinking.” On a rare occasion when Schwarzenegger is home, Curtis tells him facetiously that she slept with the plumber to get him to knock $100 off the bill. Understandably, Schwarzenegger looks to more fashionable women for excitement, casually fondling the thighs and other body parts of perfect strangers, their skirts slit to their navels. At first, Curtis is a dowdy working woman, ignored by a husband who never makes it home and despised by a daughter who steals. ![]() The movie’s “friendly to the family” message is quite straightforward: Wives, besieged by household responsibilities, are intrinsically boring, and in order to save the marriage, they must learn to act like whores. In a clear expression of fidelity toward Jamie Lee Curtis, who plays his wife, Schwarzenegger states unambiguously: “Women. Misogyny is in.īut this traditional guy-talk doesn’t mean that women go unappreciated. In this movie, a woman can still routinely be referred to as a female dog. What better ally against the forces of darkness than Arnold Schwarzenegger, a committed Republican in real life, playing a CIA agent who reports to Charlton Heston in a movie distributed by another conservative, Rupert Murdoch? I wouldn’t say it turned out to be supportive of any family I would like to be part of, but one cannot deny that the dialogue evokes strong images reminiscent of some traditional male-female relationships. Families these days need all the friends they can get. Bob Dole’s indictment of Hollywood for “bombarding our children with destructive messages of casual violence and even more casual sex,” I rushed out to rent “True Lies.” That’s one of the movies that Dole held up as a positive example of films that are “friendly to the family.” ![]()
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