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THE MOVIE Fatal Attrac- tion left me jumpy for days. The morning after 1 saw it, I looked up from the paper in a line-up at a procery store aud saw 8 woman standing behind me who looked ex- actly like the psycho lady in the movie, and I jumped a foot. :

I mean, it was a bolt of real fear! Terror lest she suddenly whip out a butcher knife and start jabb- ing me, like she did the poor guy in the movic.

This is a testimony, in part, to the skills of modern filmmakers. The acting, the special effects, the camerawork — they all conspire to make what is happening on screen so realistic that even jaded cus- tomers like you and me can be

tricked one more time into suspending our judgments about reality. .

But there was more to Fatal At- traction than cinematic gimmickry. The characters thrown bloodily together on the screen were power- ful archetypes represenring our sexually beleaguered times.

Or at least that’s what I’ve read. And it makes sense.

I'm a lapsed Catholic, so there may be some uncrasable condition- ing that makes.me expect retribu- tion for sin. This movie certainly fulfilled my deepest fears, if | have any.

And that's it! Fear! Danger!

Sex is a big, heavy thing again. It has got past its Age-of-Porn promise of being casual and casy. it is back to being a major event in life.

Certainly, the most astonishing fcature, to me, of relationships be-

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tween young people nowadays is their duration and seriousness, Not all that Jong ago, certain amount of playing the field, as we guainthy called it, was presumed.

Today, even my most deter- minedly bachelor friends seem to be tending toward monogamous relationships. De facto marriages, let us call them. Everybody's back is to the wall.

Sex and doom have been poten- tially related all along, of course, Nothing new there. But formerly, it was mostly women who were in danger from it, their very lives at stake in the inevitable birthing process that followed.

This is the biggest irony of the post-Sexual Liberation era: that men now are more at risk than women.

It was this new-found sense of the male as a more vulnerable creature that Fatal Attraction was touching, | think. Don't gather from this it’s a movie about sex- ually-transmitted disease.

I's about a whole other order of risk, a deeper, more primitive level. We're talking a tale of mother bears. And a mere gonad-

crazed male caught in the middle.

The story begins with a decent- enough husband and father being tempted astray one weekend by a throaty blande bouk editor of the female variety.

Orgy time! Who among the males in the audience could really, mano 4 mano, say we blamed the guy? It's a tough question, sex. It's like religion — something a person finally has to figure out for themselves. One of the purposes of life, J guess, is to figure it Gut.

In any event, you can never Iec- tire anyone on sexual mores. It's too private a-thing in the end. And, besides, when it comes to sex, people lic. I'm sorry. They do.

The husband in the movie is of course a creep.

Great wife. Perfect kid. Still he messes around, Just couldn't be satisfied with heaven, ch? Idiot. Boy, is he in for a lot of hassles now! |

Us older and wiser males in the audience shake our jowls. The younger guys no doubt simply drool. Someday they'll learn, we sneer,

Sure enough, we begin to find

ourthe woman is 4 psychopath, ao matter what her lawyer might say. There's no reasoning with her. She won't let go, Our hero has got himself into a sexual tar-baby en- counter.

The spurned woman slashes her wrists and bleeds all over him, sends him lurid tapes, boils his pet rabbit, throws acid on his BMW. kidnaps his kid and tries to gut his ; wife, who blows her away in the end.

Talk about right-wing scripts! The moral is: don*t mess around even for a minute, guys, look what could happen! You can never tell, with women, They're loony too. / And dangerous — never forget that!

Well, of course, this is a i disgusting, reactionary portrayal of modern North American womanhood and the producers should be arrested for playing, so shamelessly to a general fear that fidelity is now like pregnancy once was: something you can’t just be a little bit, @ ‘

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