Okay, let's be honest: when the sound stopped that first time, and everyone thought it was over until those glorious notes of "Through with Love" played on the screen, there was an audible groan in the theatre, including mine. But somehow I felt that's what we were supposed to do. Actually, never in my life had I wanted to see a naked woman less, and it struck me as the film was reaching an end (or so I hoped) that there was no way Marilyn Times Five could be sexy or entertaining. When I looked it up on IMDB there was only one user comment which described it as an "anti-porn film", and the more I think about it the more I respect the short, which in so many ways fits that description. Take, for instance, the music itself, describing a woman who gives up on love after heartbreak. Perhaps this is a statement on lust and the nature of pleasure- and attention-seeking promiscuity. When repeated over and over it almost becomes satire, making fun of porn music's repetitive and unimaginative nature, sung by a sultry woman's voice which (given the context) seems more sarcastic the more I think about it. And then you have the visual display itself, which in shows us a demoralization and stereotyping of the sexy film star. Marilyn's face is never shown, which allows us to believe the naked body could sort of be anyone's; she fiddles with an apple (Adam's?) in a playful way over and over... something I would consider a definite sexual metaphor with which Freud (and only Freud) just might have a field day.