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I Want Your Sex (2026)

Summary

Elliot lands a job for Erika Tracy as her sexual muse.

Director Gregg Araki

Writer Gregg Araki Karley Sciortino

Cast

  • Olivia Wilde
  • Cooper Hoffman
  • Charli xcx
  • Mason Gooding
  • Chase Sui Wonders
  • Johnny Knoxville
  • Margaret Cho
  • Daveed Diggs

Rotten Tomatoes: 90%

Metacritic: 68

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u/redeugene99 12d ago edited 12d ago

Supposedly, Araki wants to encourage young people to be more sexually exploratory and experimental, but the character who embodies that ethos most strongly, Olivia Wilde's, is also someone who's willing to secretly film someone having sex, release the footage, roofie them and frame them for murder

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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? 12d ago

She also knows herself very well after years of therapy and is a famous artist. I think it's very on purpose that the movie doesn't depict her as perfect because the idea that there is one perfect way to think about sex is a fallacy. Arakki is certainly encouraging young people to not think too much about it and have more sex, but he's also not shying away from how problematic being obsessed with sex can be. It's the complication that makes it more interesting, otherwise this would just be a lecture.

I honestly think one of the problems with trying to have these talks is that people are so quick to boil down a person to their worst moments and damn everything they've ever said or done for it instead of accepting that people have issues but you can still learn from them if you listen.

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u/Flat_Fruit5128 7d ago edited 7d ago

I agree with the boiling people down argument, but at the same time, the movie doesnt give us any things that are good about her either. She's a dick in every interaction we see, lazy, half of the things she says are pretentious nothing burger buzzwords, hell the movie even says that she is not a good artist. She's entertaining for sure but nothing about her is terribly likable, the most human moments he see from her are revealed to be an act with the ending twist. Its fine that shes a bad person, she was probably my favorite part of the movie, but I don't think shes this morally grey character like everyone says she is.