| RATING: | 60% |
| TECHNICAL QUALITY: | DVD |
Bored bourgeois Whites are tedious in real life and this film focuses on their desire for nothingness - sans-souci existence without effort or purpose. This nihilistic sense can never be achieved and constantly threatens to sink this film since it indulges in the same central nihilism of its characters. In reality such desires are little more than intellectual masturbation and involve nothing more than trying to get others to perform the tasks that should be performed by the middle-class; acting as parasites.
The endless chatting about the girl here who collects men sexually raises the issue of male sexual-hypocrisy in the socially-constructed, different and Christian way in which both sexes are expected to express their sexuality. This gynophobia leads to the usual misogyny that one expects from such attitudes - as the film fetishizes the young woman's body.
The control freakery of such people is not fully explored and the film ends up as boring as they are bored. The conclusion is that girls who like sex bring out the sexism of men who claim not to be sexist and blame this on the girls by calling them sluts. Deep down such men wish to be loved, yet offer nothing in return for what they want. Too much talking and not enough doing is the problem here - both with the characters and the movie itself.
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