I love Dick, the series that has Kevin Bacon as a sexual object: when fantasy becomes obsession

A fantasy as the driving force of a boring life and two possible problems: when that fantasy lasts over time and becomes an obsession. Or worse: when it comes out of the realm of the impossible.

He speaks to us kindly about those ghosts of the mind I love Dick (Amazon Prime). Diary of a (sexual) fixation. Or how desire requires perpetuation in order not to die.

“Dear Dick, all the letters I write are love letters.” “Dear Dick, do you know that I was devastated before I met you?” “Dear Dick, you are like a Roman god who brought the carnal back into our lives.” The writer is Chris (Kathryn Hahn) and the one who still doesn’t know about these desperate letters is Dick (Kevin Bacon). They barely know each other, but in his head there is an explosive intimacy.

Bacon as a sexual object, as a commodity, as a pathological representation. We see him “dressed in leather”, in a barren area, carrying a sheep or acting sensually like a cowboy. Chris’ imagination has no limits.

An independent filmmaker, married to Sylvere (Griffin Dunne), trapped in a stalled marriage, the restless woman accompanies her husband on a research grant in Texas. Upon your arrival you will be struck by your teacher, a renowned plastic artist. Since He will lead us by the nose because of his neurosis.

Hahn (who we have seen in great performances in series such as beautiful little things) He recounts his repressed dreams and his process of liberation in an epistolary letter. She tries to rediscover herself away from her husband, while installs in a mirror themes such as oppression, self-destruction, mandates, old models of masculinity, unspeakable monsters.

The title line (Dick, as the male member is called) should not confuse the viewer: It’s not just a carnal excursion.. The story also takes the opportunity to discuss and criticize art and counterculture.

A voice like a moan and a song in Spanish in the first scenes give us a glimpse of what could happen. “I came to the desert to laugh at your love, because the desert is more tender and the thorn kisses better.“, we hear the song of the Mexican-American Lhasa de Sela. With an interesting soundtrack, the protagonist will put it thorns in writing. Writing will be your great refuge, your catharsis, your placebo.

Based on the best-selling book I love Dicka novel published by Chris Kraus in 1997, the series that brings us to Griffin Dunne again, after his cute character in this is usit’s easily digestible, in eight 30-minute chapters.

The sublimated “object” (Bacon, partly a John Wayne 2.0) will enter the couple to form an alien triangle from which no one will be able to escape unscathed. Meanwhile, each character has one of these maxims: Not everything that is loved is desired, nor is everything that is desired loved.

“No one had destroyed with a single look the woman who had taken so many years to build”, confesses our heroine e he invites us to witness that deconstruction, disarmament, almost bleeding until we know who he is again.. He doesn’t know, yet, that the desire is more important than its realization.

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Qualification: Well. Type: Comedy. Address: Joey Soloway (Creator), Joey Soloway. Protagonists: Kathryn Hahn, Kevin Bacon, Griffin Dunne. Problem: 8 chapters on Amazon Prime.