«Back in the Day» is a raunchy, nostalgic, coming - of - middle - age, high school reunion romp, and while that trope is trite, Rosenbaum brings some smart surprises to the lewd / scatological genre: the rude -
nude - dude bouncing along in the pick - up truck and the slo - mo close - up of his giblets; the hiding in the shower dual vomiting
scene, and my favorite, the homage to Hitchcock's «Psycho» shower
scene with the illusory flash cuts and
colored water going down the drain.
A recurrent subject was the
nude, painted innocently at first in pastel
colors but morphing quickly into bawdy
scenes of women and faceless men and culminating in the softporn «X-Rated series» during the 1970s.