ADVERTISEMENTIn Amazon’s new sex comedy “I Love Dick,” the protagonist, Chris Kraus, played by Kathryn Hahn, becomes wildly obsessed with a mysterious man ― part cowboy, part artist ― by the name of Dick. Soloway’s “I Love Dick” follows Kraus as she accompanies her husband, Sylvere (Griffin Dunne), a Holocaust scholar, to a fellowship in the solidly trippy town of Marfa, Texas. Therefore, I have to make my problems social.” Even the book’s title, I Love Dick, positions Kraus as the subject, Dick as the object. While Dick becomes a muse for Kraus, Hahn is something of a muse for Soloway. “I Love Dick” destabilizes the very idea of a muse, founded upon patriarchal understandings of female desire.

Source: Huffington Post May 01, 2017 15:10 UTC