| RATING: | 40% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Yet another film about sexual relationships in the Western world that accurately describes them from a distance but does not understand them. Because of this there can be no solution to the problems outlined here and so one quickly realizes that the reason such dramas are made is simply to whine about problems both the characters and their screenwriter share.
What makes this even worse is the belief that the self-imposed suffering here is universal (rather than particular to White culture) and that there is, therefore, no need to find a solution because one does not exist. This fundamentally masochistic approach to life would be an excellent source for another (better) drama should any White writer have the emotional courage to script it.
Talking about emotions rather than experiencing them; pretending that feelings remove ethical choice from ones actions; sexual possessiveness as a substitute for sexual exclusiveness; neurotic need; and, emotional self-indulgence are also the essence of a story which refuses to take a God’s-eye view of human affairs; preferring, instead, to wallow in solipsistic self-pity and narcissistic self-aggrandizement.
The ensemble performances, however, are almost - but not quite - good enough to help us forget the inherently-ethnocentric weakness of this story (& its coincidental contrivances) about Western alienation and resultant sex-as-intimacy obsessions. Fear-of-intimacy and fear that if one acknowledges ones emotions the world will come cashing own around one informs this drama; rendering it the collapsed world self-fulfilingly feared. The gilded cage in which these characters live tries to reverse the importance of the noun (cage) with its qualifier (gilded).
Just about everyone here needs to work on their intimacy skills. Because the writer does not really understand his characters, he does not really understand why they do what they do - except to claim that they believe the world owes them a living. A drama as ultimately soulless as its characters who try to buy love with sex, and not as good as Sunday, Bloody Sunday, nor as illuminating about White sexuality.
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