Men: Want to own her orgasms? Get help, cinema won't help you!

Rating: 1/10 (29 December 2004)

What is learned about people through this film? I learned by clicking on the writer that is was based on an award-winning play, and upon learning this my bewilderment was compounded. This film was not one constructed for entertainment. It does not depict young people as being kind or particularly sensitive, nor does it depict them as being particularly bright or courageous or capable of contiguous, if not rational, thought processes. It does not depict men as being interested in much beyond seeing or penetrating a woman's vagina (or being responsible for or counting her orgasms). It does not present three dimensional characters (nor developed character arcs for your screenwriters out there) whose motives, desires and frailties are explored, examined, or deconstructed with any depth whatsoever. So I am left with nothing but an empty, hollow feeling because once again my generation specifically, and humanity generally, is being compressed into a tiny, incoherent, two dimensional space. And if, for some bizarre reason beyond comprehension, this film was made for entertainment purposes, I'd have to say that Mike Nichols has failed, miserably. Oh Joe DiMaggio, our nation still casts its lonely eyes to you.