After Sex (2007)

"Well that's the difference between love and sex. Sex is the game where everyone wins a little price, and no one goes home loser. And love is the game that's really hard to win. But if you do, and you take home that life size dinosaur, it feels so much better than taking home a shitty little plastic keychain." 
                                                                - Leslie

10 minute shorts that pick up immediately after sex. Straight sex, gay sex, lesbian sex, virgin sex, dirty hotel sex, interracial old people Viagra assisted swinger sex: it’s all there. It’s a pretty solid concept for a movie and it leads to great conversation pieces.  Sex complicates things. Sex leads to more questions: questions about the differences between men and women, gendered identity, labels (“I’m not gay now, am I?” one guy asks after his first homosexual encounter).

Like many collections in the themed anthology format the total package is uneven (See The Ten). Some are really layered and interesting while others are completely facile. And as usual they save the best for last (Taryn Manning’s is easily the best short of the bunch). Most of the stories are more like short plays. Plot is advanced chiefly through dialogue so you can expect lots of talking heads, and the setting is limited – usually kept to one room though not always.

There’s also a great cast here: Dave Franco, Jane Seymour, Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldana, and John Witherspoon (with his obligatory “bang, bang, bang”) to name a few.

Am I recommending After Sex? Well, it won’t make you laugh (for the most part), but then it’s not really a comedy. Calling it a drama is a bit of a stretch too. It’s a series of (sometimes) interesting conversations about sex and all that comes with that. If that interests you then you’ll probably like it. I did.