I just looked on IMDB again, and the bit of trivia you mentioned is gone. Maybe it wasn’t true.

I thought that as well.

I noticed when Vi hugged Marcus, his back seemed to be sweaty, or maybe I’m just seeing things.

Another poster was wondering if Leo Fitzpatrick was nervous about the opening scene. Well, Kids was pretty graphic, so he was probably used to putting himself out there like that.

I doubt that’s true, because I’ve never heard of a movie that had something like that unstimulated.

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Well, they finished the second that scene started, and the actor’s name is Leo Fitzpatrick.

That could also be why Marcus wasn’t shown until after they finished, out of respect for the actor playing him.

I also read that. It says on IMDB that there weren’t any closeups of that scene out of respect for the actors.

The scene with the professor was more explicit in terms of dialogue, but I thought that the beginning scene looked more real.

I don’t think that the movie could be made at all today.

That’s for sure. If Todd Solondz made this today, he’d have to leave out that scene.

No way on earth that scene would fly today.

Maybe Marcus regretted treating Vi that way, and I agree with you about the scene with Robert Wisdom.

I saw this for the first time today on Amazon Prime, and I wonder why Marcus was looking at himself in the mirror and calling himself a freak. Also, I read on another website that someone felt the opening scene was bad taste to show a disabled person doing it. Why? The scene with the professor was better HOW?

I have to give Leo Fitzpatrick credit for this role. It would probably be hard to stay in character in that first scene.

It could have also been rated NC-17 for the dialogue.

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I don’t know why he would think that, either. She explained she was never that much of a sweater.

It being unstimulated might explain it getting an NC-17 rating. I don’t know why Marcus would think that her not sweating would make him think she’s tired of him, though. I also noticed he didn’t seem sweaty at all.