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movie review - Kinsey

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is an impressive little bio-pic about the father of modern sex research, Alfred Kinsey. He was an entymologist who switched into the field of sex research as a result of his own sexual experiences and his anecdotal discovery that everyone in society seemed to be pervasively ignorant of sex.

The movie follows his research and the publication of the results. In a dramatised fashion, it also follows the lives of the people conducting the research.

Supported by an excellent cast including Peter Sarsgaard (one of my favourite actors) and Timothy Hutton (an actor who seems to be chronically underused), this is a slightly slow-paced but otherwise engrossing flick. The writing is quite solid, and the handling of the sexual content manages to be both frank and disarming with the required dashes of humour.

This is a flick that I'd originally meant to see in the cinema, and I was happy that it lived up to my expectation.

Recommended.