Talk:Animal Instincts (film)

Confusing
I've been asked on my talk page why I tagged this article with Confusing:


 * Joanna Cole (Whirry) talks of meeting a man named David (Caulfield), the latter may be a police officer.
 * The relevance of his occupation?


 * Their marriage
 * Leap from meeting to being married.


 * is in strong precarious positions
 * How can a position be "strong " and "precarious"? How many positions, and what are they?


 * so they resort to involvements in voyeurism and blackmail.
 * They blackmail people? They blackmail each other? They choose to get blackmailed? How is "resort to involvements in voyeurism and blackmail" different to "resort to voyeurism and blackmail"


 * The wife begins becoming involved
 * "begins becoming"?


 * in multiple extramarital affairs to several other men
 * As opposed to "multiple extramarital affairs to one other man"? How do you have an affair "to" someone?


 * For which reason Joanna's husband watches her doing that.
 * The reason he watches her having affairs is that she is having affairs?


 * But then, mobsters learn about their sexual activities and start getting involved.
 * They have a gang bang with mobsters?

I defy anyone with no prior knowledge to claim honestly that after reading this they understand the plot of the film. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:31, 7 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Had to respond to this because frankly I found it just as confusing. Fortunately, I watched the film (don't judge), so I believe myself capable of correcting this:


 * Joanna Cole (Whirry) talks of meeting a man named David (Caulfield), the latter may be a police officer.
 * The relevance of his occupation?
 * The guy is a cop. Not "if", "may" or "but", I don't know why whoever wrote the summary put "may". It's from his job that he knows mobsters, which later become involved in the plot. And they're married from the start, I don't know why they put that they met only to jump from there. (The film has a framing device of the woman telling this to an interviewer, so maybe the summary takes account of this, but good grief, the execution is terrible.
 * is in strong precarious positions
 * My guess is they meant to say something along the lines of "is in a strongly precarious position", but that just sounds like a textbook example of cruft words. Say it's "precarious" and get done with it. (And given the film's genre; yes, there are a lot of positions.)
 * so they resort to involvements in voyeurism and blackmail. / The wife begins becoming involved / in multiple extramarital affairs to several other men / For which reason Joanna's husband watches her doing that.
 * *Sign* Same problem as before. The husband discovers that he's a voyeurist, so the wife becomes involved (Goodbye "begins"!) in extramarital affairs with other men (Sayonara "multiple"! Hasta la vista "several"!), and the husband watches it. ("Which reason", you're out! To the bleachers!")
 * But then, mobsters learn about their sexual activities and start getting involved.
 * They have a gang bang with mobsters?
 * Alright, that made me laugh out loud. But yeah, the local mob learns about their activities, and their leader (David Carradine) blackmails them to videotape an encounter with a crooked politician (Jan Michael-Vincent). (Man, what a landfield of dead careers.) It is then when they have "involvements" with blackmail, not at the same time as implied above.


 * Anyway, I'll rewrite the plot summary section to make it at least decently readable. (And thanks for the laughs.) EdgarCabreraFariña (talk) 15:40, 8 June 2024 (UTC)