Psychopathology, indeed.

Rating: 1/10 (25 April 2015)

I don't think I have ever given one star to any other movie I have rated, of the many movies I have seen and rated.
If you like your socio-pathology over the top, this movie is for you. Otherwise, watching paint dry is a better use of your time.
I do like Jake Gyllenhaal, he's done some fine work -- and am sure his talent will redeem him some time in the future. But this movie is just a one-tone poem of depravity, so it has nowhere else to go.
Before watching this film, I saw a piece on TCM about Frances Marion, an early screenwriter who wrote such classics as "The Champ" and "Dinner at Eight." In the piece, one of the interviewees quotes Frances from the 1970's saying, "...it's what people 20 to 30 years from now will think of these films." The only conclusion one could make about this film is what a sick society we are.
Movies like these are designed (obviously) to make money, but they also beat the drum about how helpless we all are to do anything about the sea of depravity in which we swim. But that is true only so long as we believe it. If any good can come from films like these (and Hollywood seems to be in love with them lately) it is that unless we come together to build the kind of country we want to live in, we are going to be subject to the filth this film represents.