The 2026 film, I Want Your Sex, is
ostensibly about sex, for the film is saturated with that leitmotif, but the narrative
is actually a critique of California culture, with European culture playing a minor
role to provide a contrast. Generally, comedy can be used by screenwriters as a
means by which audiences can accept, or at least acknowledge criticism that
would otherwise be met with ferocious denial befitting a drug addiction. In
2026, the sheer dogmatism of ideologically-soaked imposing at will, as
if with facts of reason rather than the gloss of merely subjective opinion, was
the brain-sickness of the day afflicting youth culture at least in San
Francisco and Los Angeles. Film can expose such banality to the light of day
and thus serve as a self-correcting agent for a societal or sub-societal
culture. The human mind may be vulnerable to blindness when belief and values are in the grip of
ideological idolatry.
The full essay is at "I Want Your Sex."
