Fuck (film)

fuck is a 2005 American documentary film by director Steve Anderson. It examines the term from perspectives which include art, linguistics, society and comedy. The film features the last recorded interview of author Hunter S. Thompson before his suicide. The word ‘f-word’ is used 857 times in the film.

About Fuck (film) in brief

fuck is a 2005 American documentary film by director Steve Anderson. It examines the term from perspectives which include art, linguistics, society and comedy. Scholars and celebrities analyze perceptions of the word from differing perspectives. The film features the last recorded interview of author Hunter S. Thompson before his suicide. The word ‘f-word’ is used 857 times in the film. The documentary was first shown at the AFI Film Festival on November 7, 2005, at ArcLight Hollywood in Hollywood. Film critic A. O. Scott called the documentary a battle between advocates of morality and supporters of freedom of expression. In the film, the word is used as an argument commonly known as ‘Think of the Children’ The word has been used by authors including Robert Burns and Lawrence H. Burns. It was originally claimed as an acronym for ‘For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge Under Consent’ or ‘Fornication Under Consent of the Carnal Law’ It was not, as often claimed, used in the 1475 poem ‘Flenys’, which was written in the 15th century by a man named Flenys. It is not known if the word has ever been used in a play or a play. It has also been used as the title of a film, including the film “The Godfather” and the film adaptation of The Godfather: Part II, which was based on the novel “Fantastic Mr Fox” by William Makepeace Thackeray.

The movie was released on DVD on November 11, 2006. It also has a Blu-ray version. The DVD includes archival footage of comedians Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, and analysis of theword’s use in popular culture, from MASH to Scarface and Clerks. It includes commentary from film and television writers Kevin Smith and Steven Bochco; comedians Janeane Garofalo, Bill Maher, Drew Carey and Billy Connolly; musicians Chuck D, Alanis Morissette and Ice-T; political commentators Alan Keyes and Pat Boone; and journalists and Judith Martin. The title of the film is a reference to the movie Perversion for Profit, in which the word was used as a’sentence enhancer’ by SpongeBob SquarePants. In his 2009 book Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties, law professor Christopher M. Fairman called the movie “the most important film using ‘fuck'”. The film’s reviews were generally mixed. The Washington Post and the New York Daily News criticized its length and other reviewers disliked its repetitiveness – the word ‘f-bomb’ is used 857 times in the film – the word “f-bombs” is used more than 1,000 times in the movie  than any other word in the history of the English language. It also includes archival filmmaker Bill Plympton’s sequences illustrating key concepts in thefilm.

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