Sook-Yin Lee Funny Porn Movie Shortbus
CBC Radio host Sook-Yin Lee stars in “Shortbus,” a porno movie satire that’s making audiences laugh and her bosses furious.
Sook-Yin Lee, the artistically brash CBC Radio host who ran into trouble in late 2003 when her bosses caught wind she would be starring in a sexually explicit film, held out hope on the weekend that the public broadcaster’s management will side with the press and a midnight crowd of film buffs who applauded the movie’s comic exploration of sexuality at the Cannes film festival. “There’s a big heart in this movie and hopefully they’ll be able to recognize that without giving in to other puritanical fears,” she said in an interview on the day of the world premiere at Cannes, where the film is playing out of competition.
Lee, the host of the Saturday afternoon Radio One pop culture show Definitely Not the Opera, may be asking a lot. Shortbus, which follows in the sexually frank tradition of recent European fare like Nine Songs (2004) and Romance (1999), may be the most sexually graphic feature film ever intended for North American release. An exploration of the role that sex plays in contemporary relationships, self-identity, and even sometimes love, the film features an encyclopedic array of un-simulated sexual practices.
It opens with three intercut scenes: A dominatrix unpacks dildos in a hotel room overlooking Ground Zero and proceeds to whip a male client; a man videotapes himself masturbating and then ejaculating into his own mouth; and a married couple have sex with the kind of physical flexibility usually associated with prepubescent Romanian gymnasts. Audiences doubled over in laughter during one scene in which three men perform oral sex on each other while singing a rousing version of the U.S. national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner.
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Noting that the sex is rarely erotic, Mitchell added that he doesn’t consider the film to be pornographic. “I define pornography to be devoid of artistic intent. The purpose of pornography is to arouse, and I don’t think anybody got a hard-on watching this film.”
Jay Stone, reviewing the film for the Ottawa Citizen, agrees.
We meet her character, Sofia, leaning stark naked on a piano and having several varieties of what appears to be unsimulated sex with her husband Rob (Raphael Barker). Although Sofia is a sex therapist — “I prefer relationship counsellor,” she keeps saying — she has never had an orgasm, and her journey on Shortbus includes encounters with an impressively rubbery vibrator and the insertion of a vibrating vaginal egg that is activated by a remote control. In a moment typical of the movie’s wicked humour, the remote gets misplaced and someone uses it to try to change channels on the TV.
Sook-Yin Lee was almost fired by CBC when it was announced she was taking the role. “There was confusion and fear on the part of my bosses,” she says now, adding that she was fascinated how they all supported the idea of the film, but they all said that the boss above them didn’t want her to do it. The threat of firing was dropped in the face of a public protest supporting her decision. “It was the most beautiful thing because in the end, my bosses just went ‘Phew. You are allowed to do this. Go do it.’”
Of course, the fact that Lee isn’t particularly good looking helps make her being naked and having sex un-erotic. I’m not sure that’s a good thing.
The Toronto Star awards this “Most Nationally Specific Controversy” and notes, “For some bizarre reason, this fact has yet to erupt into an international incident.” Probably because few outside Canada have heard of Sook-Yin Lee. Who, incidentally isn’t particularly hot.
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Not hot???
I’ve never heard of her being in the UK but I was curious after seeing an article in a newspaper, and I’ve seen a few pictures of her and she’s gorgeous!!
Saw Shortbus this afternoon and I really enjoyed it. There’s nothing PORN about the movie if you can *GASP” get over the fact that there are naked people in the move, and focus on the story, characters and message of the film. I lije the Salon section of the official website too. You can find it here.
I definitely recommend John Cameron Mitchell’s follow-up to Hedwig to anyone who’s looking for something refreshing and unique. As opposed to most of the garbage that gets relased now-a-days.
This movie is porn and nothing more. If Cameron Mitchell wanted to make a movie about individuals who can’t find love, can’t express themselves, or are deeply and emotionally scarred he could so easily do so without the hardcore sex. But I guess that would take talent. When reading reviews of this film most have said that since the sex is not erotic and since the movie has something meaningful to say then it is not porn. Sure…well lots of porn is not erotic and claims to have some hidden meaning. Shortbus, regardless of whether it has a message or not, is a porn, and if you like that stuff you may like this movie. This movie could have made its point without the sex which is added for nothing else than shock value and to draw attention in hope of garnering more viewers. I know there are people who actually indulge in this lifestyle and many of these people get STDs, including AIDS. If this film wanted to be honest, it would have skipped the sex and Mitchell would have had at least one of the characters have HIV or some other std because that is the reality for people who mimick the lifestyle these characters do. Remember Forrest Gump; that movie had no sex or nudity yet we knew what sexual escapades Jenny was up to and we knew what std she got as a result because it was well written. Mitchell has said that Hollywood “cheapens sex” by throwing it there in a gratuitous manner. I agree, but he has done the same. If Mitchell’s vision of the future of adult cinema is Shortbus, and if more directors begin adding real sex, which seems to be happening lately, then legitimate actors have to start competing with pornstars, and moviegoers must either become porn fans or skip the movies. So far, however, those actors willing to degrade themselves have been untalented amateurs or minor hollywood figures looking for more “exposure,” like Chloe Sevigny and Vincent Gallo. The unfortunate thing is, however, that as real sex becomes more prevalent in legitimate movies, and perhaps theater, then we’ll have kids growing up thinking the way to be heard in the industry, and perhaps in other avenues of life, is to be a whore. Stds anyone?
Obviously the last writer is afraid of sex…
And Sook Yin lee is definitely cute, and a terrific actor to boot.
The film, which I just saw last night, is hilarious, charming, and very moving. I do not see what is vaguely pornographic about it at all, nor what the whole paranoid hooplah is about. If you hate the human body, then don’t see it. There’s a rating so you don’t accidently wander in and get offended. Besides, the film is mostly talking about sex and relationships anyway!
Geez, what’s so frightening?
Highly recommended.
Haven’t seen the film but…
If Sook Yin Lee is “not particularly good looking”, then I shudder your to imagine your writer’s vision of femine beauty.
Perhaps James Joyner is one of those men who subscibes to the Hustler aesthetic – bleached blonde hair and watermelon sized fake tits.
As for myself – I recall a time in the early nineties when every male in my residence seemed to be in love with Sook Yin Lee. We would go see “Bob’s Your Uncle” just to watch her on stage. She was beautiful then as she is beautiful now.
Beautiful women, of course, are everywhere. Let’s forget the dumb stereotypes of what beauty is supposed to look like, and start noticing the beauty that is all around us.
I’d never heard of Sook-Yin Lee until this movie, so I think I’m reasonably unbiased.
The original blogger is wrong. She’s beautiful, and clearly has quite a head on her shoulders to boot.
Sook Yin Lee is VERY sexy. Comfortable in her lovely skin, Intelligent, without pretense. Someone I would love to get to know.
Sook-Yin is definitely hot. When I was a kid I always thought she was really weird on Much.. But she’s pretty sexy.
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Sook Yin Lee NOT hot? Sex, happens in the brain and by that token she is FLAMING hot.