Ohjaus:
Peter BegányiNäyttelijät:
Karol Raffay, Vlado Raffay, Janka Raffayová, Márius Kopcsay, Robert Máthé, Vladko Raffay, Dušan Pitúch, Žofia Mešková, Albert Sarközi (lisää)Juonikuvaukset(1)
Adam a Eva did not share just the same rib, but many other things. That made them different for example from the monkeys. There is an erotic in human history from very beginning and it didn´t miss Slovakia, too. After 1989, after hundred years after end of monarchy and after two dictatures we have got a freedom to speak about it. And freedom to do erotic bussines, too. Main line of the movie is a story of first ever Sex shop in Slovakia. Karol Raffay started his own bussines after november revolution in 1989. Raffay and his family sex-bussines got through the same process as a democratisation in Slovakia. Movie is succesfully looking for the parallels beetwen those two. It speaks about shop, customers, sexual history of country with big will and small selfconfidence. It shows sexual life of Slovaks mixed with social political and other changes. Slovak citizen can join the democratic elections as he can enter legal Sex Shop for the first time, too. Both of freedoms make a problems to him. Movie uses a "pink glases" to talk about slovak sexuality and about explanation of erotic in Slovakia in the story of Sex shop, from its birth up to present. Guiders with the movie are except owner of shop and his employers also widely respected specialists: sexuologist and politic reporter. The whole view is completed with citizens opinions and lot of archive TV materials. Our society basically based on seriously catolic population has problem with public expresion of its opinions. On the orher side, daily newspapers bring lot of exclusive and controversional news mostly about celebritie´s erotic life. It is beautifull to see the changing of nation, which become a freedom and has to learn how to use with it. Do we percept society in intimate underwear? Is it exciting? (jakelijan virallinen teksti)
(lisää)Arvostelut (1)
This documentary probe into the life/characters of members of a family who run a sex shop, shoot porn movies, etc. initially makes fun of the “simplicity” and “commercial superficiality” of the protagonists and turns them into comic figures. However, it gradually makes the audience connect with them, as it shows their normalcy and earnestness, proving they are also just flesh-and-blood people with the same problems and beliefs that your neighbors have. They are people who are just trying to achieve success in the era into which they were born. Erotic Nation is a pleasant, clever portrait of a subject that many people turn their noses up at without truly knowing what they’re scorning. It also holds up a small mirror to the development of Slovak politics from the fall of Communism to today, which strongly influenced the ups and downs of the protagonists’ business.
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