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TITLE |
People vs. Larry Flynt, The (1996) |
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DISABILITY |
AIDS Limb
Wheelchair |
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NOTES |
Porn king
fights in courts for freedom of speech, i.e. print |
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'dirty'
pictures. In 1978 Flynt was shot by someone who was |
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never found,
and left paralyzed from the waist down. For |
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some time he
is dependent on drugs to stop the pain until he |
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has an
operation. His partner dies of AIDS. |
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While not a
pleasant story this is a very good film and I think |
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we have to
thank Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's |
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There is no
one in this film with whom you can naturally |
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empathise .
These people publishing porn are not very nice. |
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But our
interest is sustained because with Flynt what you see |
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is what you
get. He knows what he is, he's aware of people's |
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reactions to
him. Courtney Love, who I've never seen when |
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she was a
singer, portrays the decline of Flynt's girlfriend |
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(later wife)
with grotesque detail. |
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There's sex
in the film but it's not really sexy and Flynt's |
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attitude to
porn is not to make it sexy more about what can he |
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The civil
rights issues I'm not interested it in this regard, and |
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appear to me
spurious, but Flynt's battle with the system is |
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interesting.
But he ain't no hero. |
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Look out for
the people in wheelchairs at the back of the |
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courtroom in
the final court scene. |
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