I watched this movie a couple of days ago. I should warn you that if you are into fast action movies maybe this movie ain’t for you. It mostly takes place in a bathroom(sort of like Kenya’s MALOONED)It may have a little action, few locations and the acting not so over the top but the writing is awesome and will blow your mind. So just concentrate on what the writer was tryna get at( through the stuff the characters discuss)
The scene starts with drugs and there’s a couple of sex scenes and lewd language so you might wanna make sure the kids are off to bed before putting it on. My other fave actors Jessica Biel (remember SEVENTH HEAVEN) and Jason Statham (remember TRANSPORTER, ITALIAN JOB?) and he has all his hair in this movie.
Any ways the movie starts with Syd ( a druggie) finding out that his ex-girlfriend who he ain’t over is going to California with her new beau and has a going away party.
He decides to crush the going away party and try to win her back before she leaves. He ends up locking himself in the bathroom with his friend, where he proceeds to do drugs, drink and reminisce about his relationship with his girlfriend and where he went wrong as he works up the nerve to talk to her.
He remembers how he couldn’t say the words “I love you” because according to him he didn’t see the need to put a verbal label on things. The constant criticizing of his ex and his weird beliefs like-if you can avoid the first fight, you will never fight. what??? The writer shows how dysfunctional relationship can be between men and women and how different people have different opinions/ view of lfe. Syd and his friend even argue about how long it takes to recover from the end of a relationship. Syd reckons its ½ of the time you spent together while his new friend argues its 1/3.
There’s the issue of therapy, which is explored at length. Both Syd and his friend are attending therapy but don’t seem to be getting better. For Syd, he has been going for therapy for months but the pain isn’t going away. According to him the therapist is taking his money as he is slowly dying (I always had my reservations about therapy). He just wants the pain to go away (don’t we all!). He has taken lithium, Prozac etc but nothing seems to help. “You would think with all the pills in the market you would, there would be one able to take the edge off a chiq leaving you” –syd
His friend who is banker is recovering from being divorced from his wife of 3yrs and is impotent. He believes that if you cant hack it in the sack, you cant hack it anywhere, you are a total failure ( again what’s with men???). He describes the pain of divorce as emptiness within emptiness, the person you married isn’t the same as after. He remembers the words his wife told him like bullet wounds (they are stuck on his mind). What kills him is that the man before him and after him in his wife’s life is better than him because they can all give her what he couldn’t.
They argue about sex with underage girls. This is because the legal age in most countries varies from as young as 15-21. So it’s like if men are on an island where international law doesn’t count they would sleep with young girls. But the banker says that…”if we tell women the horrible things we have done we will never get laid”.
They talk about freaky sex. Platinum showers, S&M (which apparently is an expensive hobby both mentally and financially) Etc. So for all those who were curious what Rihanna’s song S&M meant you can watch this movie. I think when Chris slapped her something inside her snapped.lol. The movie scared me more about men, especially British men.
The issue of religion comes up with Syd who keeps on questioning the existence of God. He doesn’t see how some invisible dude in the sky is taking checks and balance on 6billion people, its like santa clause to him. His ex in one of his reveries claims that God exists, she argues that there was a time on earth we didn’t know that the earth was round because we didn’t have technology. She thinks its possible in our lifetime we will have the technology to see God. pretty interesting innit?
P.S. keep your eye on the rice experiment. Its hilarious mayne
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