We haven’t had a really good erotic thriller in a while. Back a number of years ago every studio was rushing to put erotic thrillers like cans of soup… a little flavor for everyone. Hell, I even bet Pixar thought about doing one. But alas, the last few years attempts at erotic thrillers have basically tanked, and for good reason. So here comes along a new film project called “Addicted”.
The Hollywood Reporter is saying that the new film (which apparently is about a married woman, probably hot, who “suffers” from a high addiction to sex and seeks out a therapist who leads her to have some encounters with other people to explore her addiction) just signed on director Peter Medak (who has just basically been doing a bunch of TV work recently) to helm the novel based adaptation.
So why does this news interest me? Well, I know I’m probably just getting my hopes up, but I would personally love to see a smart film that really looks at the topic of sexual addiction. Let’s face it, to some degree we’re all addicted to sex. One study I read suggested that the average male thinks about sex 6 times a minute. That’s a lot of fantasy. I like Ice Cream a LOT… but I usually only think about 2 or 3 times a day.
Why does sex drive us so much? How can it be so powerful that it drives otherwise good people to do uncool things? Why is the topic so taboo in our culture? Why are we often embarrassed by it? I’d love to see a movie address (not answer) those questions. Now, what we’re probably going to end up with is just a poor man’s porn movie with no plot some convoluted ending… but a man can dream.
