Two women, a room, a hit list of nudity, sex, lies, conflict, reconciliation, posturing, emotional something, predictable thin attempts at being intellectual and an appearance by a complicated, obnoxious room service guy. They must have taken all of 10 minutes to brainstorm that familiar grab bag of film clichés. The tough part was trying to shoe-horn it all in and do justice to any one part. Not surprisingly, they failed.
The setting is a room and the movie gets there way too fast. Some background even in the form of a flashback would have put some depth to it. Likewise, the fast move to nakedness was awkwardly and unrealistically handled.
The two lead characters are sexually confused. One could be described as an unfulfilled bisexual predator, the other is mildly bi-curious who decides after some obligatory reluctance to indulge. I won't give away the so-called revelations but it holds no surprises. Yawn... we've seen this all too often.
Probably, they were trying to give this an emotional and sensual edge. Not quite sure about that as the emotions are forced, the sex fast and unrealistically rushed to climax. I detected no sensuality, chemistry or emotional depth to the relationship or the various activities, not even a believable kiss. Mainly, it came across as predictable forced posing. There is no depth to it, just as there is no depth to any of the it. How could there be when they are moving from point-to-point so fast?
I don't blame the actresses. The material they were handed was indeed hard to sell and the director was not helping. Movies such as this are difficult, they need perfect pacing and an excellent script. We don't get those here.
The lighting was appropriate and there is some worthwhile use of the camera. From that, I was hoping to see some good use of symbolism but although there were attempts, they were thin.
This well represents the primary problem with this film, i.e. if they had done more with less, it could have come across as more realistic and satisfying. The irony is that are has many slow and tedious moments as they try to bring in some other element that essentially leads nowhere.
In addition to the basic pure film-making problems, what I find disturbing in this movie is that it shameless promotes dishonesty, indulgence and disloyalty. That is supposed to be somehow justified by what the protagonists have been through in life (which again comes across as contrived). Experience has reduced faith in things to nothing, so indulgence is the path to salvation and meaning?? Not buying it. Pardon me if I do not find that original or uplifting.
Is that a moral judgement? Perhaps it is, but from a totally practical standpoint, the kind of thinking and lifestyle this film promotes causes a lot of pain and problems for many people and justifies it on the basis of the transient benefits of sexual indulgence. Indulgence over respect and loyalty.... hmmm, is that the kind of world you want to live in?
The setting is a room and the movie gets there way too fast. Some background even in the form of a flashback would have put some depth to it. Likewise, the fast move to nakedness was awkwardly and unrealistically handled.
The two lead characters are sexually confused. One could be described as an unfulfilled bisexual predator, the other is mildly bi-curious who decides after some obligatory reluctance to indulge. I won't give away the so-called revelations but it holds no surprises. Yawn... we've seen this all too often.
Probably, they were trying to give this an emotional and sensual edge. Not quite sure about that as the emotions are forced, the sex fast and unrealistically rushed to climax. I detected no sensuality, chemistry or emotional depth to the relationship or the various activities, not even a believable kiss. Mainly, it came across as predictable forced posing. There is no depth to it, just as there is no depth to any of the it. How could there be when they are moving from point-to-point so fast?
I don't blame the actresses. The material they were handed was indeed hard to sell and the director was not helping. Movies such as this are difficult, they need perfect pacing and an excellent script. We don't get those here.
The lighting was appropriate and there is some worthwhile use of the camera. From that, I was hoping to see some good use of symbolism but although there were attempts, they were thin.
This well represents the primary problem with this film, i.e. if they had done more with less, it could have come across as more realistic and satisfying. The irony is that are has many slow and tedious moments as they try to bring in some other element that essentially leads nowhere.
In addition to the basic pure film-making problems, what I find disturbing in this movie is that it shameless promotes dishonesty, indulgence and disloyalty. That is supposed to be somehow justified by what the protagonists have been through in life (which again comes across as contrived). Experience has reduced faith in things to nothing, so indulgence is the path to salvation and meaning?? Not buying it. Pardon me if I do not find that original or uplifting.
Is that a moral judgement? Perhaps it is, but from a totally practical standpoint, the kind of thinking and lifestyle this film promotes causes a lot of pain and problems for many people and justifies it on the basis of the transient benefits of sexual indulgence. Indulgence over respect and loyalty.... hmmm, is that the kind of world you want to live in?