Gospel of Deceit (TV Movie 2006)

Gospel of Deceit: Directed by Timothy Bond. With Alexandra Paul, J.C. MacKenzie, Corey Sevier, Zoie Palmer. A preacher’s wife falls for a young man.

“A preacheru0026#39;s wife (think Reverend Lovejoyu0026#39;s wife from u0026quot;The Simpsonsu0026quot;) gets her bony ass regularly shtupped by a muscle-bound sex-monkey drifter cute-as-a-button boy-toy with a very high-maintenance pompadour hair-do (think Snake from u0026quot;The Simpsonsu0026quot;) just as her sanctimonious husband is about to conclude a lucrative televangelism deal. Complications ensue. There is nothing wrong with this film once you admit itu0026#39;s really pornography for women. There is really nothing unnatural about that, per se. Some works of this genre have attained cult and classic status, like, say, oh, I donu0026#39;t know, u0026quot;Jane Eyreu0026quot;. Everybody with ovaries enjoys this kind of pastime. Itu0026#39;s just regrettable that American women – and Anglo-Saxon White Protestant women especially – feel that their pleasure can only be complete with the inclusion of large doses of guilt, deceit, bitchiness, gossip, mental illness, paranoia, greed, medical near-emergencies, police and media involvement, skeletons in the closet, triple-generational incest, double adultery, shame, ruined reputations, scandal, murder, blackmail, public exposure, bad driving and ultimately humiliation, punishment, mutilation or death of the u0026quot;guiltyu0026quot; parties. Refer again to all the works of the Brontë sisters and their Gothic Harlequin romance and afternoon soap-opera descendants. Everyone should be able to enjoy sex when they can, but why all the hypocrisy?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film score alternates between torridly sexy sax solos for the soft porn scenes and abysmal u0026quot;fear musicu0026quot; that would make the History Channel proud for everything else. A Black Gospel choir is also trotted out on stage every time the viewer might be forgiven for concluding those small-town fundamentalist Christian nutjobs must surely be racist Republican tea-baggers to boot.”