One of the best films in the history of movies (seriously!)

Rating: 10/10 (20 February 2005)

Although this film is not as harrowing as "Death of a Salesman", "Long Day's Journey into Night", "'Night, Mother", or "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", it nevertheless deserves to be ranked alongside them or perhaps even above them, for the accuracy of its portrayal of men and women (and their motives, their emotions, and their relationships) in our current society.
This film does *NOT* deserve less than ten out of ten. Perhaps those who find it disgusting are reacting to the awfulness of the characters, and the situations they get themselves into, rather than to the superb quality of the acting or directing or the script.
Men and women do have those exact motives, emotions, communication difficulties, and ways of relating! All of the conversations between the men and women in this movie are so accurate I suspect that the author may have recorded actual private conversations and and selected the essence of those. The men talk and think just like men I know and the women talk and think just like women I know, and the difference between the sexes gives rise to the exact type of difficulties portrayed in the relationships in the film.
It's a fascinating story, showing men and women meeting, relating, breaking up, just as they do today in cities all over the world, and down your street, as well.