Basic Instinct (1992)
Paul Verhoeven’s lurid thriller is one of the most explicitly erotic picture of the last century.
It’s not just Sharon Stone turning the simple move of uncrossing and recrossing her legs during a police interrogation into subversive sexual power play.
As Catherine Tramell, a crime novelist linked to a series of brutal ice pick murders, Stone is carnality personified; she makes smoking a cigarette into the most lascivious.
Michael Douglas’ detective is putty in her hands, prompting him to describe her as “the fuck of the century.”
In this picture, it’s the woman who is always in charge.
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