| RATING: | 20% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Like so many US comedy films, the characters analyze their emotions to death, rather than just accept them for what they are. They are frightened to discover who they really are; hence, the lack of sincerity in their personal relationships. Rather than find out about oneself from relations with others, personal relations are avoided, as is - and for the same reason - emotional maturity. This existential self-indulgence explains why the United States has the highest divorce rates in the world and the worst sex comedies.
The jokes are as simplistic and as unsophisticated as the characters and the performers; making it look as though the actors are ad-lirbbing rather than performing from a script they have memorized.
White culture is obsessed with comparing and contrasting itself with other cultures, that the characters could not know happiness if it hit them, since they constantly worry about whether someone else is happier than they are. No one here is happy, they simply associate with the least-worst partners: They try to fit their feelings into pigeonholes - as all repressed people do - rather than learn to experience them spontaneously.
Relationships here become more important than the people one is relating to, in true tail-wagging-the-dog fashion, as if such relationships were all for show. And the screenplay never addresses this simple fact as an issue that would have made for a far more insightful and, therefore, funnier comedy.
Rather than engage in human archetypes, this comedy pretends humans are either sexually promiscuous or chaste, with no variation either way. Relationships are little more than sexualized therapy, as characters whine-on about others, when their real problems are with themselves - as if the only purpose of such relationships were the whining.
Amid all the ethical relativism, where are the mental and emotional absolutes that these people pretend to be searching for? The screenwriters have absolutely no idea!
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