The End of the Affair (1999) The Eighth One

Ok, there are a few things one needs to make sure of before they invite a person to watch a movie with them. The #1 thing is to be prepared for any awkward sex scenes watching with someone else. I invited a friend to watch "Strange Days," and there was a female on female sex scene and I felt such discomfort, and I thought she was thinking of me as a weirdo for watching a movie like this. "Can you imagine if someone came in and saw what we were watching?" I asked to break the tension. The tension was broken and it was fine for the rest of the movie. What is the long point I'm trying to make here? Be prepared for sex scenes in movies, especially when watching this with other people, that's all.

And for a movie called The End of the Affair, I should have prepared myself for sex scenes, but I didn't (and boy was there a lot of sex and nudity from Ralph Fiennes himself). I was watching this with my friend and my mother and that was more than I could handle. That was a whole new side of acting I hadn't seen from Fiennes (haha!). So what is this movie about? It's about a man named Maurice Bendrix (Fiennes) who begins an affair with a friend's wife, Sarah Miles (played by Julianne Moore) in 1940s London. They have sex in her place, his place, everywhere and they don't seem to mind the numerous bombs going off around them. And that's where I fell asleep.

I'm not doing a great job with these blogs you guys, especially if I keep getting bored or falling asleep. But this allows me to bring up a point regarding The End of the Affair. Sex scenes can be very important with a movie. Sex scenes build the story, you sense the characters' vulnerabilities and true personalities and maybe even get a sense of why they wanted this intimacy in the first place. Were these characters unable to get intimacy from others in their life, and that's why they start affairs? Do they have other problems that they can only relieve through sex? See, sex scenes build the story and build the characters. But with The End of the Affair, I thought this was just a standard affair, no love with the husband so she goes after the husband's friend. I was just bored and I felt like the sex scenes didn't build the characters and it didn't build the story as much as I wanted it to. Do I recommend this movie? Not really but you be the judge and prove me wrong! I will definitely come back to this movie when I do The Reader (Talk about sex scenes!).

And guess what people? I have Spring Break next week which means I will get through most of the movies before his movie release on the 30th of March. Thanks everyone for following my blog, but hold on to your seats because it's not over yet!
No quote today, but I will start with the quotes next time, promise!