12.06.2008
Red Hot Docs: A Complete History of My Sexual Failures
http://www.sydneyfilmfestival.org/film_details.asp?id=71&...
Alright, I admit, the title of the film is a bit bizarre (or perhaps it’s the selling point itself?). But this feature length documentary from UK was included in this years’ Sydney Film Festival and was proven to be a very popular one. I know, I was there.
“A Complete History of My Sexual Failures” was also a hit in Sundance, introduced by one of the festival facilitators. I’ve copied the introduction from Sydney Film Festival’s page:
“Dumped by yet another girl after just three weeks, shabby (with no redeeming chic) and hapless thirtysomething Chris Waitt embarks on a mission to determine the 'why' behind his failed love life. Confused by his multitude of ex-girlfriends' decisive lack of interest in being interviewed for his new project, and yearning to reconnect with the only long-term love of his life (who is totally unavailable), he creates a MySpace page to attract new options and soon reveals an embarrassing performance problem. As the quest becomes more urgent, so the slapstick comedy escalates. Documentary-making as personal sex-therapy is hardly a new form, but this riotously funny film is less interested in the darker preoccupations of I Am a Sex Addict or The Good Woman of Bangkok, and more driven by a beguiling hopelessly romantic everydayness. CS”
Sounds interesting? Well yes. It was even more hysterical when you actually watch it. The audience sort of knew what to expect but the extreme length the director/film Chris Waitt went through was unbelievably painfully comically hilarious. We human being must be a very mean species – how we enjoy laughing at people’s misfortune!
Chris Waitt was there at the Beginning of the film to introduce his documentary. When he started speaking we knew he had a wicked sense of humour. Perhaps more like the Monty Python type of humour, or perhaps that’s really the only type of British humour I’ve encountered with. (then you count the Black Adder, Fawlty Towesr, Yes Minister…) Anyway in the end of the film he again presented himself there for audience to ask him questions. By that time we already felt that we’ve known Chris, in person, for many many years, after watching all the humiliating things he had gone through in the film. There was not a lot of questions relating to film/documentary making. People are more interested in the aftermath. The audience just loved this likeable loser, and an accidental filmmaker.
Apparently it took a very experienced editor to work on it from 400 hours of footage to form this documentary. No one in the production team, even the filmmaker himself, was sure about how it would turn out. But in the end it all worked out well. Because as it turned out, “A Complete History of My Sexual Failures” was not just about sex, it was about, as corny as it might sound, finding love.
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19.04.2006
Mathematics and……Sex?
最近在報紙上(The Australian Financial Review)看了一篇很有趣的文章，一個看起來比較像是衝浪專家的女數學家以數學理論寫了本與日常生活息息相關的書。書名是『Mathematics and Sex』。
我記得很久以前有部Judie Foster主演的電影『The Contact』，外星人用數字傳遞訊息是戲裡很重要的環節。有人質問如果外星人真的是高等生物的話為什麼不直接用英文？Judie Foster飾演的科學家是這樣回答的: 『因為數學是宇宙通用的語言。』
好吧，就算數學是宇宙通用的語言吧，但我怎麼也沒辦法把性跟數學扯上關係。可是這個另類的女數學家Clio Cresswell 卻做到了。
舉個最讓人跌破眼鏡的例子:
12 bonks rule (嘿咻十二守則)
基本上Clio Cresswell計算出如何找到靈魂伴侶(或是…最接近的那個) 通常是這樣的，先把和你在一起的的一百個人中找出最先的三十七個，那第三十八個人呢，就是最適合你的人。
你也看到了我看到的問題吧?除非是絕世情聖才有那個閒功夫去談一百次戀愛!
當然，Clio Cresswell也想到了。
結論呢? 『先和十二個人嘿咻，然後跟第十三個在一起。』因為，『這通常會給你超過75%的機率保證這段感情的成功持久。』
嗯…是不是給了花心的人一個很好的藉口到處留情呢?想一想，也許我們都想當對方的Lucky 13。
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