The Last Virgin In LA

Short Film Spotlight: THE LAST VIRGIN IN LA. Welcome to another installment of SHORT FILM SPOTLIGHT. This week Robert reviews the short film THE LAST VIRIGN IN LA. Comedy can, and often does, go to some sensitive places. Usually this is done for the cheapest of reasons, but sometimes there's method to the madness; a filmmaker wants to comment on some topic or other and uses comedy to make his point. Two women are engaged in the usual kind of . When they include third- wheel Millie in the conversation, Millie is forced to confess that she has never actually done the deed.

The Last Virgin in LA. This video can’t be played with your current setup. The Last Virgin in LA. When Millie discovers she's the last virgin in LA, things get out of hand. Short Film Spotlight: THE LAST VIRGIN IN LA. This week Robert reviews the short film THE LAST VIRIGN IN LA. Comedy can, and often does, go to some sensitive places.

I will leave you to make what you will of the fact that the film only defines losing one's virginity as engaging in heterosexual congress. But then the film breaks from traditional propaganda as we learn that all the virgins in LA were supposed to have been killed off by a gun- toting killer known as . Apparently Millie is the last one. Out of a desire to save Millie's life, one of Millie's friends calls her boyfriend over to handle the de- flowering, even though getting laid isn't really on Millie's radar.

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Millie's hasn't stayed a virgin because of any lofty ideal, it's just not that big a deal to her. She'll likely get around to gettin' down one of these days. And yet her virignity, more specifically, the ending of it, is still a life or death situation that must be resolved immediately.

I thought we were supposed to be tolerant of womens' choices? The girl talk at the beginning is just not something I want to listen to, and the .

Buy La Vièrge - The Last Sleep Of The Virgin: Read Digital Music Reviews - Amazon.com Amazon Try Prime Digital Music. The Last Virgin in LA. Alex Khatchadourian July 27, 2015. If you head north on Figueroa Street. Two distinctive sides of Los Angeles connected by one street. The Last American Virgin is a 1982 American coming-of-age film written and directed.

This movie actually put me in mind of Shivers, a 1. David Cronenberg, in which a parasitic outbreak turns people into sex- starved maniacs. In both cases, the story revolves around the removal of personal control over a meaningful part of life. Neither project is out to praise or particularly condemn sexual freedom or the individual's decision to restrain their expression of it.

But it should be an individual choice when to engage in sex, not something that gets decided by someone else. The shag- or- die stakes on Millie are ludicrously high, but that only serves to throw the ridculousness of the situation into sharper relief. On the other hand, that we are still discussing this topic in the age of tolerance and personal choice suggests that maybe we still have farther to go in our journey towards enlightenment than we might think. Check out the short below, and see what you make of it. Ouro Verde.