Closet Homosexuality
Clever sex comedy about White male-bonding around fast food, violent sports and sex. The characters are vivid and vividly-played by a spirited-but-uneven cast and the loneliness that pervades these guys' lives is easy to identify with until you realize that their fear-of-intimacy is a form self-induced immaturity.
As we watch we wonder when they will ever grow up and much of the humor here comes from their repeated inability to judge others other than by appearance and to assume that tricks & games are the only way to get women into bed because women are infantile.
Like Roger Dodger the emptiness of the life on show here is well presented. The essential challenge for the characters here is the need to make their universal theory of life fit reality rather than make reality fit their individualist theory of life. Yet, despite all of this, the regular whining about a world that only sometimes fits their sexual wish-fulfillment fantasies never gets in the way of the personal-is-political satire on closet homosexuality.
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