- Rating:
- 40%
- Format:
- DVD
- Year:
- 2009
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Plot:
- White couple think promiscuous sex will bring back the spark to their marriage.
- Themes:
- Personal change
- Self-expression
- Love
- Similar Titles:
- Unknown
- Best Performances:
- None
Arrogant White person’s movie (ie, one in which only White issues are valid) that refuses to accept that other ethnic groups run their marriages differently from Whites in order to evade the White Guilt that inevitably springs from realizing that cultures are different and that Whites arrange them hierarchically in their mind – with themselves always at the top. Self-satisfaction was never so smug.
This is about nothing more than the White obsession with therapy (ie, introducing a referee into the relationship) as a substitute for actual communication. The satire remains superficial because it is mired in the very thing it tries to satirize: Endemic White Emotional Dissociation and Denial.
There is no real understanding of what makes sexual relationships work in this movie, merely the implication that White supremacy and sex-obsession is why Whites have such high divorce rates.
The worst aspect of the below-par movie is that multi-cultural casting does not prove Whites are no longer White supremacist, since they are used to avoid the specific - ethnically-based - issues that only People of Color face – issues that make it all-too-obvious that Whites have not renounced the benefits of White supremacy; prime of which here are narcissism and solipsism.
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