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June 27, 2005
Everyone in this atrium of the Park City Marriott has had sex, right?: Miranda July
The limits of representing teen sex in movies is the subject of a Sunday takeout by the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram's Christopher Kelly, who discusses Mysterious Skin and talks to Miranda July about the squeam and the ish of Me and You and Everyone We Know: "When I watch a movie [about teen-age sexuality], if it's done right, then it brings up all kinds of things... Not just the discomfort but also the thrill of it, when you're just beginning to be sexual." ... July agrees that it's puzzling that adult moviegoers wouldn't be more open to... frank portraits of teen-age sexuality. "Everyone in this atrium has had sex, right?" she says, pointing at the dozens of people shuffling through the Park City Marriot, during an interview at the Sundance Film Festival. "That was an amazing thing [for them] at one point." ... "There's certain things you can't have children say," she explains. "The girls weren't even allowed to read the signs that are placed in the windows. We had to change the word 'nipples' to 'nickels.' " In other words: The impulse to "protect" kids has become so all-consuming in American society that we've projected them straight into a fantasy world that bears no resemblance to the one teen-agers actually live in."
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