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“Years from now when you talk about this, and you will… be kind.”
-Laura
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This is sort of cheap and lurid. So I liked it. Deborah Kerr is a lonely and sensitive housemaster’s wife at a boy’s prep school. John Kerr (the film is depraved enough on its own merits — they are not related) is one such boy on the cusp of manhood, tormented for being ‘different,’ called ‘Sister Boy’ &c. Essentially this is two hours wrangling a half-believable way for the two to have inappropriate sex. Kerr1 fulfills some psychologically problematic desire to play mother and lover to an awkward young man like her first husband while Kerr2 proves he is a real man — somehow — I guess. This is not a thorough or insightful examination of gender roles. But it is delightfully overwrought melodrama masquerading as such, and it sure doesn’t cop out on its creepy agenda, so everyone gets the release they signed up for. Yes. It’s awesome.
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