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Depressing indeed, but then again, it's Kaufman [SPOILERS]


I just watched it and I have to say that, at the beginning, I thought the audio settings of the DVD player were incorrect or they were set to "descriptive audio", since all voices were, well, the same with the exception of Michael's. Then I understood what the film was about: The incapacity of modern human beings to love other people other than themselves.

See, for Michael everybody is the same people: boring, plain, mediocre... unless there's something that attracts him sexually (he gets turned on by freshly new female voices), and he finds that in Lisa. However, once he has CONSENSUAL sex with her following a pretty much normal, standard seduction of white persons, she starts sounding pretty much like everybody else, and he dumps her, the same way he did with the other girl 10 years ago. Considering the age of his son, he probably was already married and did the same thing to her.

It's Kaufman at his best, in my opinion. I enjoyed the film and I found it depressing, but still, if people are already addressing this incapacity of reaching out to others, then we are in the right direction.

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Good stuff. I never considered all that after watching. I knew something was askew but I couldn't quite grasp nor fathom it like you have.

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Thank you. The movie is about our modern society now; not 50 years ago. But 50 years into the future it will be seen as something to study this era of selfishness.

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That's an extremely misanthropic, and is, what I believe, an incorrect reading of this film. This film, particularly the character of Lisa, has much more humanity, than you seem to recognise.

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