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"The poster for the upcoming \u201CLovelace\u201D doesn\u2019t augur well for the upcoming independent biopic of the \u201CDeep Throat\u201D star Linda Lovelace being a serious inquisition into the 1970s porn industry, or of the despoliation and exploitation of the young woman who became Lovelace.That\u2019s not to say Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman\u2019s film won\u2019t tackle Linda Boreman\u2019s tragic life sensitively and intelligently. It\u2019s just that the poster suggests feminist outrage isn\u2019t the guiding spirit, even though Sarah Jessica Parker, who plays Gloria Steinem, a champion of Boreman during her years as an anti-porn activist, will presumably introduce that element in the movie.Amanda Seyfried, who plays Bowman/Lovelace, is shown in a traditionally alluring pose with her head angled at the camera, eyes come-hithery, a hint of cleavage, and her red lace bra strap and lace shawl falling off her bare shoulder.&amp;nbsp;Light bounces off her brunette tangle, as if her halo slipped.&amp;nbsp;Most egregiously, given the subject matter of \u201CDeep Throat,\u201D her plump pink lips are parted, though mercifully not in an \u201CO.\u201D The tagline \u201CX marks the legend\u201D is not reassuring.It is your basic sexist movie ad, and there are have been far worse, but surely in this day and age a movie about the experiences of such a brutalized woman as Boreman daren\u2019t suggest it can be be sexy and amusing?A frankly unsmiling closeup, without the trimmings of brothelly underwear, would have been more dignified, albeit less appealing to Maxim readers and their demographic. A blogger at cinemablend.com interestingly speculates, \u201CBeyond the sexy look of Seyfried's pose, we could read further into it and suggest that she doesn't look entirely happy there.\u201DUnderstandably, perhaps, Epstein and Freedman want to maximize the &amp;nbsp;black comedy of Boreman\u2019s &amp;nbsp;participation in pornographic films that showcased her skills, and her later reaction to that chapter of her life. \u201CYou\u2019re along with her psychology at the different stages of her life,\u201D Epstein told the New York Times in February \u201Cand when she\u2019s ready to look at her life differently, we\u2019re ready to tell the story differently.\u201D\u201CHer story bridges the period from the sexual revolution to feminism, and she was a key figure in both of those moments,\u201D Friedman told the Times\u2019s Dave Itzkoff.Naturally, though, when it comes to selling movies, the sexual revolution, as represented by Seyfried in the poster, beats out feminism every time.[content:advertisement-center]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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