Wet fantasy director It was 2 hours wasted. From ‘love’, the nature of which I have never been able to comprehend, to what the characters called tango (as a man who has been dancing tango for several years, I will say that it is absolutely not him).
I honestly looked to the end and waited for the very powerful idea embedded in this messy and painful action on the screen.
If the depression of the hero about his wife’s “departure” can be understood, then his “relationship” with the main character (or rather the satisfaction of his sexual fantasies), which in the final are even presented as love – I do not see at all (the hero simply embodied his sex fantasies, and the heroine played along with him, while he regularly humiliated and manipulated her).
In the film, there are a lot of repulsive in the behavior of the hero, he is rude with everyone (you can think of injuries and defensive reactions, Freud and all that, but you don’t want to), there are quite a lot of scenes where the characters are without clothes or pleasing each other (and again it is not clear what effect the director achieved, because these scenes do not attract and I won’t say shock, this is just everyday 2 people in the process of their “random meetings”).
There is, for example, the film by Kim Ki-duk “Bad guy”, it makes a concretely repulsive impression, there the hero, you can say, is much worse in all senses, but the idea that is laid there is impressive (or rather, after watching a lot of questions about the world perception appears) and the perverse version of love that is shown there – you believe it when you watched the film. Nothing here. Neither in terms of empathy for the heroes, nor in terms of the message.
Maybe for the 70s, this film was something shocking because of the type of explicit scenes, now it is just boring and faded.
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