Title: miserable people with miserable lives
Review: Others have found this movie intriguing if melancholy. I found it totally miserable as well as exploitative. It has that "indie" feel about it with characters that are supposed to be "quirky" and a little off-center. In this case, they are so far off center as to be dangerously deranged. The "hero" celebrates his divorce by setting his own hand on fire. Nice! His neglected kids, one a young teen and the other barely out of kindergarten, get involved in sex chat rooms with deviant adults. The "heroine" is supposed to be a talented performance artist but when we get to see her art, it turns out to be garbage. She falls for the hero for no apparent reason. He brushes her off; she persists and they end the movie clasped in an embrace that looked to me like the grip of a python around its prey.
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