| RATING: | 40% |
| FORMAT: | DVD: 1st-generation |
[Golden Balls]
all that glitters is not gold
Unconvincing rags-to-riches drama with fine actors and performances. Intended as a satire on parvenu, nouveau riche, machismo, Spanish bad taste in general (especially Julio Iglesias) along with the cynicism of those loaded with ambition, but no talent with which to achieve their ambition. (The technical quality of the DVD transfer is not first-rate, but does not lower itself to VHS standards.)
The virility on show here masks an inner emptiness that regular sex with various girls can never mask, until the hero meets a woman who mirrors and reminds him of his own rapacious sexuality. Macho men repress their intellect and replace it with boundless energy tempered by having nothing to do with it except endlessly prove how manly they are through prodigious sexual expression.
Here, everything is paired: Two women made-love to simultaneously; two Rolexes; two eggs; two testicles. There is too much unresolved hate from the creator of this film for it to be much more than a list of loathed items; rather than the dramatic exploration it could have been of either why they are hated or why they are hateful - or both.
This film is as superficial as its characters despite its also possessing their boundless energy. Citizen Kane it most definitely is not.
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