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- Version:
- needed to precede following dl
- Languages:
- Length:
- 92 minutes (Uncut)
- Review Format:
- DVD
- Year:
- 2001
- Countries:
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- Entire cast
- Premiss:
- Woman is in love with a man in love with another woman - and all three have designs on a young man raised as an ape.
- Themes:
- Advertising | Alienation | Christianity | Courage | Curative | Destiny | Emotional repression | Empathy | Equality | Erotophobia | Family | Free Speech | Friendship | Grieving | Guilt | Gynophobia | Humanity | Identity | Individualism | Loneliness | Love | Loyalty | Mankind | Materialism | Narcissism | Nostalgia | Personal | Personal change | Political | Political Correctness | Pornography | Propaganda | Redemption | Sadomasochism | Schizophrenia | Science | Self-Esteem | Sex | Sexism | Sexual Repression | Society | Snobbery | Solipsism | The State | Stereotyping | White culture | White supremacy
- Similar to:
The Hubris of White Supremacy
Like A Clockwork Orange and L’Enfant Sauvage, this film reveals why Whites are so deeply repressed - although it offers no practical solutions to their lifelong trauma - especially when confronted with the invidious nature of those who are not so afflicted.
Operant conditioning is here shown as a substitute for genuine, ethically-based family values; while all attempts at conflating civilization with the suppression of healthy human instinct inevitably leads to an anally-retentive obsession with that very instinct.
The actors are fully-engaged and make us believe that the emotional traps within which most of their characters exist are the result of lived experience. Everyone plays it deadpan; successfully emphasizing the comedy because of the frequently absurd things their unsatisfied human needs make them say to one another.
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