How to Have Sex covers weighty topics of consent, coercion, assault, trauma, sexuality, and social acceptance. From there, it digs into feelings of isolation, coping, innocence, friendship, shame, adolescence, femininity, and masculinity. Despite all these valuable, complex, and painful topics, the story humbly allows viewers to feel emotions before contemplating meanings. This is championed by the delicate acting, which brings raw spontaneity, chemistry, range, likability, layers, vulnerability, internal conflicts, patience, and release. There's natural dialogue, developed characters, brewing tension, and vivid relatability. Thus, How to Have Sex captures challenging nuances.
How to Have Sex has intimate tones, perspective, and style. Its direction captures harsh realism hidden under slick idealism. The motivated imagery shifts lighting, motion, framing, angles, focus, color, and composition. Its dreamlike editing uses montages, inserts, jump cuts, flashbacks, and emotional pacing. The subjective sound adds split cuts, smash cuts, muffling, risers, stings, distortions, and silence. Its music is atmospheric, trendy, moody, and restrained. The production design offers an authentic sense of place. Its cast's limited fame and the nonexistent effects reinforce the grounded approach. Overall, How to Have Sex is a sobering and earnest conversation starter.
Writing: 9/10
Direction: 10/10
Cinematography: 9/10
Acting: 10/10
Editing: 9/10
Sound: 9/10
Score/Soundtrack: 8/10
Production Design: 7/10
Casting: 7/10
Effects: 6/10
Overall Score: 8.4/10
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