| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Sex & Drugs & Rock‘N’Roll
Clever movie - told largely in the First Person - about the knots White tie themselves up in by the games they play to conceal the fact that their achievements in life are largely the result of playing games with the lives of others.
As in A Clockwork Orange, those who enjoy the game-playing most are the winners of the game; having to pretend that there is no other way to live successfully by engaging in Projection & Displacement, guilt, need-instead-of-love and morbid sex-play.
The characterization is weak because the characters are deliberately paper-thin and mediocre. This leaves the actors to reveal this emptiness through the broad humor of an underwritten screenplay, the rapid pace of the editing and their high level of skill and ability. Funny - despite being more about style than substance - and deeply Black.
White culture is an interesting place to visit, but you would not want to live there. It is full of people unable to present themselves to others as they really are, so are unable to deal with the simplest, everyday aspects of life because they are so busy hiding themselves from themselves - and others. Like the culture portrayed, this movie is not self-reflexive enough to see itself as others do; so lacking an all-important dramatic perspective to make it great.
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