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Nick & Norah’s Orgasm Weirdness
"Infinite Playlist" has a subplot about orgasms.
by Jessica Wakeman
I saw the teen film Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist over the weekend. The first half of the film was everything I wanted: Kat Dennings’ (Norah) amazing, amazing lips; schmoopy Michael Cera (Nick), who I just wanted to give big mama bear squeeze to; a great supporting role from a busted-ass car even worse than the ‘83 VW I used to drive; fun music.
Then this weird sub-plot about Norah never having had an orgasm before appeared halfway through the film and I was, like, “Whaaaaaaaaat?”
Here’s how it went down: Norah has a crush on Nick and that pisses off Tris, a deceitful little reptile who happens to be Nick’s ex-girlfriend. Tris is trying to mess with Norah’s head, so she corners her in a convenience store and tells her the word on the street is despite having had a friend-with-benefits for three years, Norah has never had an orgasm before. (Jeez, I remember girls in high school being mean, but never that mean.) Norah sputters, embarrassed, and denies it but clearly Tris’s gossip is correct and Norah is ashamed about it.
But, of course, by the end of the film, Nick and Norah get together, he gropes her boobies, fingers her on a couch and she has her very first orgasm. It’s really very cute!
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1 Kate // Oct 8, 2008 at 1:42 pm
No you’re not overreacting, I don’t think.
I thought the orgasm subplot was really weird and would have liked the film a lot more if Norah had come without it being set up as a sort of challenge. I couldn’t believe that she’d never ever had an orgasm before and felt that what otherwise would have been two like-minded lovely people sharing a tingly and lovely intimate moment was marred by the idea that it was him giving her something rather than them sharing.
Maybe I’m overreacting but it irked me.
2 Chris // Oct 6, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Any less believable than the super gay-wagon equipped with Nora-fitting clothing?
But seriously, you’re right about there being something inconsistent about her sometimes-confidence/sometimes-insecure, with her staying with that guy, and especially in scenes with her obviously wanting to pull away from him but acting as if she was too feeble to physically do it.