Todd Solondz is a daring filmmaker, a sly provocateur determined to subvert the "politically-correct" codes of discourse. But unlike his first two films, "Welcome to the Dollhouse" (1995) and "Happiness" (1998), which were widely praised and admired, "Storytelling" (2001) got a rather chilly critical reception. And no wonder, because the film dares to tackle in a very un-p.c. way two of the greatest taboos in the American culture: black men having sex with white women, and the Holocaust. It consists of two segments. The first, called "Fiction" is way more sexy than the second, "Non-Fiction". In it, Selma Blair plays a radical white college student who has a deeply humiliating sexual experience with her black literature teacher (Robert Wisdom). By the time he orders her to yell "fuck me hard, nigger", the master-and-slave allusions become so twisted, they literally explode on the screen.
