{"id":1236,"date":"2015-08-26T22:26:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T12:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2019-02-27T22:48:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T11:48:12","slug":"sleeping-with-other-people-2015-a-film-by-leslye-headland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE&#8217; (2015): A FILM BY LESLYE HEADLAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Sleeping-with-Other-People-2015-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Sleeping-with-Other-People-2015--202x300.jpg\" alt=\"'Sleeping with Other People' (2015)\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When it comes to relationships, some couples take their sweet time to sort out their baggage\u2026and board the same ride.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For one party, the obstacle to commitment can be a fear of failure. For the other, an unhealthy obsession with a former infatuation. In both cases, infidelity can be a convenient Get Out of Jail card; temporarily liberating but ultimately unsatisfying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In writer\/director Leslye Headland&#8217;s <em>Sleeping with Other People<\/em> (2015), Jake (Jason Sudeikis) and Lainey (Alison Brie) cross paths twelve years after an awkward one-night-stand in college. While they endeavour to maintain a Platonic relationship, their casual flings and messy, sexual misadventures with others only draw them closer, accentuating their mutual attraction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With its raunchy\u00a0rapid-fire dialogue, a green-tea flavoured tutorial on female auto-affection, punchy\u00a0one-liners (&#8216;your face says &#8220;come solve my problems with your penis&#8221;&#8216;), and one of the funniest fight sequences since <em>Bridget Jones&#8217;s Diary<\/em>, this is a peppery romantic comedy for the age of accelerated social connectivity (and increasing interpersonal distance).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Against the backdrop of sexual addiction, disposable lovers, compulsive trysts, messy workplace flings, and ephemeral coffee shop romances (Taylor Swift and <em>Tinder<\/em>\u00a0are arguably to blame here), the fizzy chemistry between a smooth-talking philanderer\u00a0and a serial cheater turns into something more binding and stable, giving weight to the notion that, in the end, monogamy and marriage are strangely more fulfilling than other people\u2019s partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to relationships, some couples take their sweet time to sort out their baggage\u2026and board the same ride. For one party, the obstacle to commitment can be a fear of failure. For the other, an unhealthy obsession with a former infatuation. In both cases, infidelity can be a convenient Get Out of Jail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}