Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014)

Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014) is a dark sexual thriller from the mind of director Josephine Decker. Loosely inspired by the themes in John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, Lovely dives into the desires, brutality, and internal struggles of its small cast of characters. Akin (Joe Swanberg) leaves his family behind to spend the summer as a hired hand on a farm in Kentucky. Strange things happen in the middle of Kentucky, including farm patriarch Jeremiah’s (Robert Longstreet) creepy affection for his adult daughter Sarah (Sophie Traub). The film’s artful, dreamy camerawork works Sarah and Akin’s mutual attraction for one another and Jeremiah’s disdain for Akin into its nonlinear plot. The characters come to a head when booze and a visit from Akin’s wife cause some violence. Does that violence include a fat prosthetic cock from Robert Longstreet, who tries to get Kristin Slaysmanto suck it? You’ll just have you watch and find out!