| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Clever and rather unusual picture about loneliness that conveys its message through a serial killer plot.
Here the loneliness of big city life is presented as a very threat to ones life as lonely married men answer contact advertisements and wind-up getting murdered for their troubles.
Once you realize that this is a metaphor for Western cultural anomie, the strangeness of the premiss wears off and a world of dysfunctional sexual-relationships opens up: Some sad, some ridiculous and many empathetic.
The film is a little lazy in not fully exploring its own issues as it tries to keep the murder plot simmering while slowly revealing the true theme of the drama: Love in a modern, materialistic and emotionally-repressed culture. Yet it hits a few raw nerves as we watch the sometimes crazy and illegal things people do to feel some kind of emotional connection with others.
As a serial-killer movie, this is somewhat implausible, but as a love story, it closely follows the ups and downs in sexual relationships in a modern, alienated culture.
The lovely Ellen BARKIN and the gifted Al PACINO do very well with their under-written roles in both conveying a strong sense of having been hurt by lovers in the past. And there is a palpable sexual chemistry between the two in this love story with a difference: A sex-comedy with a more serious edge than So I Married an Axe Murderer.
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