 1_The Crying Game
(1992, dir. Neil Jordan)
Best Seen: Artisan DVD
Time Code: Chapter 18, 63:57
What started as a fairly routine political thriller takes a jaw-dropping turn into the unknown when former IRA member Fergus (Stephen Rea) goes home with his girlfriend, Dil (Jaye Davidson). Dil changes into a robe, and then, standing before Fergus, lets it slide off her shoulders. The camera pans down . . . and she has a penis. “An awful lot of red-blooded Irishmen were very shocked because they really fancied this girl,” Rea says. The unveiling abruptly jerks the film into a no-man’s land of genre; it’s now an odd hybrid of romance, politics, and sexual declaration, but what most people remember is that infamous shot. “There’s only one penis moment,” Rea says. “Once it’s been done, really, you can’t do it again.”
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