Body Chemistry - 1 Review

You go to watch a film maybe for entertainment, or maybe just to lose the blues. The film starts, and within the first few minutes you start thinking of other things. You think of things like what's left for you to do for the rest of the day, did you switch off your bike's headlamp, why are tree trunks circular... you get the picture.

Then comes the interval, and here you take your own time at the canteen, dragging your feet around, despite the fact that the interval is over. Lazily you come back to the seat, and wonder where the crowd has gone... at least those around you! Well, these are the traits of one hell of a boring movie - like this one.

The movie commences with Tom, a scientist and also a happily married family man, doing the usual things that scientists' do - experimenting. His work involves sex - believe it or not. He's trying to find out what drives people, what turns them on etc.

At this point, he is introduced to Dr Archer - an extremely attractive lady who's been hired by the justice department to research sex-related crimes. In other words, the same thing that Tom is working on - body chemistry (that, by the way, is the film's actual name). Archer has a theory that sex is not pleasure driven, but power driven - she probably worked on Attila the Hun or Genghis Khan - and to prove her point, she makes love to Tom - experimentally or what?!!

This sex life of theirs carries on normally until, suddenly, Tom realizes that it is not right. He feels he isn't being faithful to his wife - rather late in the day, might we say? Archer meanwhile gatecrashes into a party thrown by Tom's wife. Here, she starts blackmailing Tom, threatening to come back to him.

Tom's wife hears this and decides to leave him. And before she does, she has a fight with him. And while this argument is happening, Archer sets fire to their house. And by now the remaining crowd in the theater starts to leave and you cannot see what's happening on the screen. And the theater guys think it's better to turn off the movie than play it for a sole individual. And there you are counting the money you put down the drain in coming and watching this.