- Who would’ve thought that through all the Clinton controversy here in the States that someone would draw a parallel between one of Kev’s flicks? Check this out. The Washington Times newspaper publishes a weekly magazine called “Insight.” In the October 12 issue, which came out last weekend (even though it’s still September), page 4 carries a short item entitled “Defining Sex”:
In all fairness, however, a major theme of Kevin Smith’s witty ultra-low-budget 1994 film “Clerks,” hinges upon the same topic. Near the film’s beginning, convenience-store clerk Dante Hicks gets into a fight with his girlfriend Veronica, who previously had told him that she had only had sex with three men. During a conversation, she admits that she engaged in oral sex with one friend of his and, after further questioning, 36 other men. When he appears angry, she protests: “Going down on someone isn’t having sex.” Dante, wisely perhaps, doesn’t buy her explanation and he dumps her.
Nonetheless, Veronica’s claims put the issue into public debate, reductio ad absurdum, four years before Clinton’s current concerns about what sex is.
And how does one satirize that?
We bet Kevin never pictured his flick drawing comparisons with Presidential matters when he wrote it!
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