- Content: "Sexual Purity Defeated"
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What You Need To Know:
In I LOVE YOU, DON’T TOUCH ME, 25-year-old, idealistic, virgin Katie sheds her sexual purity in a quest to find the perfect mate. Having walked in on her former boyfriend fornicating with another woman, she has refused to open her heart to another man since. Her friend Janet urges Katie to be openly promiscuous. Faced with overwhelming worldly advice propelling her to sacrifice her sexuality, Katie takes the sexual plunge. She loses her sexual purity to him and gets hurt -- she walks in on Richard fornicating with another woman. Despite this experience, Katie is eventually cowed into agreeing that in order to find the perfect mate, she has to have sex with many men.
A hit at 1997’s Sundance Film Festival because of its smart repartee and fresh narrative voice, the worldly premise of I LOVE YOU, DON’T TOUCH ME will disturb and dishearten most Christian viewers. With excessive foul language and explicit female nudity, I LOVE YOU, DON’T TOUCH ME not only contains visual elements moral viewers may find offensive, but presents a premise at odds with the truth: something must be wrong with a single woman who is still a virgin at age 25
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(RoRo, LLL, SS, NNN, A) Romantic worldview including sexually promiscuous & anti-intellectual attitudes; 51 obscenities & 27 profanities; 2 scenes of graphic sex, & depicted & implied fornication; upper male nudity & upper & lower female nudity; and, alcohol.
More Detail:
I LOVE YOU, DON’T TOUCH ME opens as aspiring singer, Katie, finds out that her best girlfriend, Elizabeth (Nancy Sorel) is getting married. At a restaurant, Katie has drinks with her good friend, Ben (Mitchell Whitfield), and Elizabeth and her fiancé. An average-looking man, Ben is in love with Katie, but she declares that returning his love would be dishonest, because she believes that sexual attraction is not negotiable. Katie elaborates: all she wants “is a Jewish man with a big wallet, a big ego and a big p….” Elizabeth advises her to aim for one of the three.
Katie says that her problem is that she lives in a world where every guy is either a “troll, a pervert or a liar.” Having walked in on her former boyfriend fornicating with another woman, she has refused to open her heart to another man since. Another woman friend, Janet (Meridith Scott Lynn), is openly promiscuous and urges Katie to be the same. She tells Katie that her problem is that she lets her head rule her body. Katie’s response? She fixes Janet up with Ben, and they become “involved.” Explicit sexual sounds emanating from the next door neighbor’s apartment wake Katie up at night. In the morning, the neighbor advises her to “lighten up” and have sex. Faced with overwhelming worldly advice propelling her to sacrifice her sexuality, Katie takes the sexual plunge.
Katie meets Richard Webber (Michael Harris), a suave, sophisticated and rich composer who woos her with lines like “Women are like food. I like to sample many dishes.” She does lose her virginity to him, and, as often happens when God’s precious gift of sexuality is misused, she gets hurt. As she did with past boyfriends, she walks in on Richard fornicating with another woman. He offers a sheepish justification: “Fidelity is not in man’s nature,” to which the embittered Katie responds: “Then your nature sucks.” Yet, by movie’s end, Katie is cowed into agreeing that in order to find the perfect mate, she has to have sex with many men.
A hit at 1997’s Sundance Film Festival because of its smart repartee and fresh narrative voice, the worldly premise of I LOVE YOU, DON’T TOUCH ME will disturb and dishearten moral viewers. With lots of obscenities and explicit sexual dialogue, the movie will offend most viewers instead of amusing them.
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