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They took the easy way out on this one. Liam Neeson -- who, for the
first time, I must judge to be in over his head -- gives us a Kinsey
who is a prophet without honor in his own country, a scientist first
and always, practically a saint.

Beginning as an entomologist he finds himself wondering what EXACTLY
goes on in the human boudoir. We have to take into account that this is
the mid-40s and nobody knows from sex. What I mean is that many
believed that if you did something bad to yourself you'd grow hair on
your palms. Things like that. A little outre.

And here comes Kinsey. What Darwin was to biology, and Freud to
psychology, Kinsey was to the physical and social aspects of human
sexuality. He used what are called "snowball samples," which are what
you have when, say, you interview one gay guy and ask if he knows any
other gay guys that might agree to an interview, and so on. This is not
a very good way to get a sample, but Kinsey was operating in difficult
times. Not a good sample? Nobody else HAD any samples! The chief source
of data on sexuality was "clinical experience," the province of MDs who
brought their own ideas to the discussion. Before Kinsey there was only
Van deVelde's marriage guide, the most shocking message of which was
that sex was for more than just reproduction, and when you went on your
honeymoon don't expect to spend all your time coupling in a locked
hotel room. Leave some space for skiing. The more literary among us in
elementary school would sneak the guide off the library shelves and
furtively skim through it looking for the dirty parts.

But overall the movie is rather dull. It's a simple-minded picture of
Dr. Kinsey, the ex wasp man. He was not only a knight in unshining
armor, although he was that too. He was a pretty weird guy.

The movie shows him going about gaily collecting "data", disinterested
and coolly eager, but he had a lot more in the way of personal
involvement than the movie suggests.

There is a scene in which he is alone with a young man in a hotel room
and they both agree that on a scale of one to ten -- ten being
completely homosexual -- they're about a three. Then they do something
about finding out if that's true. That's all we see of Kinsey the man
exploring his own sexuality. However he knew something about his
bisexuality before undertaking the study, and he explored it in his
adulthood. He got his wife into the picture more than once too. And
there were group gropes that grew a little, well, what might later have
been called kinky.

Kinsey enjoyed himself by tying ropes around his penis with plenty of
knots (in the ropes) and then tugging on it to the point of pain as
well as pleasure. There were times when he went a bit too far and
suffered unpleasant infections. I hope I'm remembering this accurately.
It's mostly from a profile in the New Yorker from some years ago.

Now, the REAL Kinsey sounds like an interesting fellow, whereas this
paragon of objectivity is rather a bore. He can't seem to talk about
much except how badly we need more information on sexual habits. (He
was entirely right about that.) But he talks like that at parties too,
and it gets repetitious after a while.

The movie ends sadly, after a cinematic biography whose trajectory is
familiar to most of us. Genius has great idea and devotes his life and
his talent to its exploration. He goes too far and alienates others.
Runs out of money. Loving wife sticks with him. But we all know that
though he may have died thinking he was a failure, his work will long
outlive him.

The direction is flat, the dialog lacks sparkle, and Liam Neeson has a
haircut that only Kim il Chong could envy.

What an interesting movie could have been made about this man and his
career..

I think Kinsey is a nice movie, showing the state of sex in the period. Liam Neeson, absolutely unique! 7/10.

Me parece muy interesante lo que esta película supuso en su momento.

good.

Like also bold was the research done by the man who worked out these
reports on the sexual behavior of men and women which made a revolution
in the till then established knowledge and the common social and
individual convictions on such matters. To withdraw sex out of the pure
scope of morals and religion and turning it as an object of scientific
research was a task which offended lots of prejudices and cleared up
preconceived notions and ideas, contributing in a certain way to the
liberation mainly of the women as victims of such prejudices. Of course
you can raise here the question -- and this is not missing in the movie
-- of knowing if sexual activity is purely physical or it must also
involve sentiments and obey to moral rules. But this is a movie review
and not a moral essay. That question is legitimate but its discussion
is absent of this review because it goes beyond what a movie review is
supposed to be. This movie, in its biographical aspect, tells us in
astonishingly good way the work of Alfred Kinsey and his struggle to
reach the aimed goal of a purely scientific nature, of revealing what
actually happens in the human sexual activity and behavior disregarding
of moral patterns and also of the common wrong knowledge about it. Its
true knowledge would then enable sexologists to establish rules that
would allow voluntary and free sex to become a source of pleasure and
happiness. Liam Neeson performs very well the role of the main
character and the movie shows a live and energetic succession of every
aspect of his activity in the pursuit of his aim, including aspects and
scenes of his own personal and married life. About the end one of his
assistants refers to him that he never dealt with the question of love
in his works. He gave a prompt and clear reply to this: love cannot be
measured and science only deals with measurable objects and actions.
But love is not totally absent from this movie. In fact the love that
unites the Kinsey spouses is very deep and firm. Even jealousy appears
once in the scene where one of his assistants has a fight with another
one that was having an affair with the former's wife. This proves that
it is not that easy to consider sexual behavior only under its physical
aspects and that psychological ones are also to attend. A beautiful
movie on a very difficult theme but in which the mastery and skill of
Bill Condon brings it to a good end..