Synopsis

In The Kiss, the sexual act is reduced to one thing: a long kiss multiplied on several faces, several moans, and the sound as an assault on the senses. The paradox of the pure act, the kiss, in an impure pornographic film, reveals that the “problem” is not the kiss itself, but the context in which it occurs. The cinematic trend is to show more and more of the sexual act, albeit often simulated. In The Kiss, we don’t see sex, even though we know it has happened. The body shame, an obstacle to divine aspiration, a fallible, impure vessel. Is this more obscene than the pornographic films that compose it?