Directed by Craig Macneill, Late Bloomer is a compelling and humorous short film about 7th grade sex ed class gone horribly wrong. Loosely based on the dark tales of HP Lovecraft.
I thought that the page could use a bit of humor, and I particularly enjoy this short, Late Bloomer. it's the sex ed we all wish we had, but in all seriousness the short film brings humor to a conversation that is going on in the United States today; sexual education for kids and the conversation of sex in general. Church and sex (appropriate, seeing as how a common theme in HP Lovecraft in atheism) . But even without puritanical repression, sex is pretty much monstrous when you really think about it. Nature at its most visceral and raw. The way I always saw it, the sex in Lovecraft's works, is more about passing on the corruption than it is about sexual gratification. Sex is the tool of control by the 'outside force'. Our bodies treated-like our minds- as manipulatable tools, so far removed from the human experience as to make them so unknowable to their very beholders. The sexual tension within this film is more about the repression of the antagonist's observed actions. And as often what we get in Lovecraft's stories is an almost clinical observation of events even once the horror is realized and the narrator has gone mad, why should sex be treated any different?
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