----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I wish someone would address the fascination Mr. Tarantino exhibits in his films for male sodomy. There is the prolonged suggestive rough-housing between Mr. Blonde and Nice Guy Eddie, as well as the graphic if somewhat less-than-credible act perpetrated upon Marcellus by the gun shop proprietors. American exploitationist cinema has always rested upon the twin pillars of sex and violence. Of course Tarantino has a well-documented taste for violence; but he scarcely gives romantic sex its due. He doesn't seem comfortable with heterosexual expressions of sex, but the scatology aspect of buggery seems to have immense appeal for him. What's going on here? -r. k. ferncase [log in to unmask]