"Basic Instinct" Interview mit/with Regisseur/Director Paul Verhoeven

[@DenkyManner]

Verhoeven actually shows restraint but having a few scenes that show after sex but not the sex. He wasn't making a porno, the scenes are part of the plot and when they don't need to be seen, he doesn't show them. I also felt what he says about the implied threat of her killing him "protects" the scene from being embarrassing or merely titillating. Because it reminds us there's a story being told, that they are acting and we're not actually witnessing sex, in a voyeuristic manner

[@warlockofwordschannel7901]

That's an important element about good erotic cinema or erotic literature whether it's Eyes Wide Shut or De Sade or Crumb or Lost Girls or even My Own Private Idaho at the fringes, you need a plot and setting and other themes other than the sex, which can get very samey and blunt or just boringly pornographic as Paul Verhoeven states here.