Watching “Sympathy for the Devil” (or “1+1”) viewers could feel annoyed, wishing and not being fully able to enter into a false, voyeuristic intimacy with the music industry or with Eve Democracy (the character, or with Anne Wiazemsky, the actress). But these viewers would also find themselves in greater touch with the nature and business of voyeurism. More “holistic” statin research might have given us less information about statins, and yet in telling us more about the terms under which medical research is done, it would have given us yet more valuable insight into the drugs that our doctors keep urging upon us and into the whole world of pharmacology in which we and our health and our finances are caught up, and the world of faith to which we turn when the terms of our existence seem unbearable.

Categories: Essay, Fall 2014 Issue • Tags: Alfred Kinsey, homosexuality, Jean-Luc Godard, male gaze, movies, revolution, science, sexuality