1972 - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask

Movie cover

The truth is that I've watched this Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask a long time ago (I don't remember, I think it was right in the beginning of the year) and I didn't feel like writing - even though it was a good movie.

Everything... is the kind of movie that Woody Allen is getting used to do back in the 1970s; he uses a lot of vignettes (which means simply that he uses lots of scenes that are not related but are fun, just like sketches). This movie is a huge Vignette with lots of small vignettes all along the way, but, the fact is that this time it works. And it works because the story must be told like this: you have seven segments with stories about sex issues.

I can't say why, exactly, but it was the first time I laughed while watching one of his movies, and I felt good. It's so idiotic and dumb that you must laugh, and the fact is that you laugh because it's just lame, just like a child telling you an illogical joke.

Tv show - one of the vignettes

But it is the human fixation towards sex that makes this movie so fun to be watched: it starts with the tittle of the movie. It makes you curious like "Oh, it's going to be nasty documentary", and then you have stories about those super hot topics like aphrodisiac elements (do they work?), sex with animals (how could it be?), transsexualism, fetishism, perversions, but at the same time, when you watch it you see that everything - even the fact that we seek for this kind of information (I say we as a whole) - you see that everything is a lame thing. I mean, whatever, go have fun, don't mind studying sex as a science.

I see that what Woody does is a meta-linguistic criticism towards this necessity we have to know, categorize, study and explain everything. If we could only live, that would be nice. And for you, that seek for nasty things to see just out of curiosity, that's it: voilá! You are going to watch something very funny.