305 days, 305 films-Shortbus

Film #8 Shortbus

“New York is where everyone comes to stop being alone”

“Don’t ever say that relationships’ normality lies in it’s complicated nature”

“I wanna do it by myself, in the dark, like a warm”

Last year, I was feeling a bit uncreative. I went to work, played with friends and traveled across the country but it still felt “odd”.  I know that many of you have felt that way at some point. It’s feeling stuck, claustrophobic and completely at a loss of creative energy.

I saw Shortbus many moons before that but didn’t really remember it well. When I told a friend about how I was feeling, she suggested I see it again. I own so it wasn’t going to take me a lot of effort to see it again.

Shortbus has a lot of sex. It’s about a group of “challenged” characters united in an underground salon in New York city. In case you missed it before, Shortbus has a lot of sex. That said, it is about so many other things. To me, it is about feeling trapped, the different ways we deal with that unbearable feeling and the toll it takes on us. There’s also an incredible amount of humiliating honesty in it. I found myself forming relationships with the characters and just like that they suddenly became my friends. I watched Shortbus and realized that just like me, these friends often times have a problem explaining why they do certain things the way they do.

I said before that as much as I liked Nine I was disappointed that it felt very anticlimactic. Shortbus is at the extreme opposite of that; the last minute brings the film to a perfect place. You watch Shortbus and you laugh, smile, think and frown. Give it a chance and maybe you’ll get inspired like I did. As most other films in 305 days, it should be available at your local or cyber video rental store.