The part where the middle-aged coach's wife beds the high school kid is sexual perversion. The part where the 40 year old guy does teenage Cybill on the pool table is sexual perversion. The part where the impaired kid is with a prostitute is sexual perversion.Marxist??
If you think the theme of the Movie was sexual perversion, then you probably see it everywhere. The two major themes in the movie was death of the town and coming of age which includes adolescent sexual awakenings. Characters speak freely and frankly about sex, losing their virginity, and prostitution. None of this is sexual perversion.
The movie seems to make the assumption this behavior is typical and normal. Nobody in my circle of friends did anything like that when we were teens in our town. Adults who do that stuff to kids in real life are called predators and go to prison. Bogdanovich treats it like it's normal. Judging from his personal life, maybe it is normal for him.
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