A film weakened by taking too many pot-shots at too many subjects: Sexism, White supremacism, classism, divorce. The underlying theme of a White culture so lacking in essence that its adherents either become White supremacists and/or vacuous attention-seekers is deftly handled. But this movie offers no real reason for the materialism of the West and simply blames it on broken homes; while ethnic minorities still have their cultural traditions to keep their heads above the emotional water. This presenting of others as more rooted in life than Whites is itself as White supremacist as the anti-Semites obliquely criticized here.
This lack of any deep understanding of its own thematic content undermines what could have been a searching examination of culture, as such, and a traumatized White one in particular.
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