Pair perhaps the most obnoxious character in the history of movies (insulting, insufferably conceited, insistent on baring her near-anorexic body to everyone including landlord on a routine basis, incapable of human warmth, bossy, foul-mouthed, promiscuous, raunchy) --
-- with a purportedly famous, successful, warm man who may soon be a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize - and what do you get?
One of the worst movies I've ever seen.
**** SPOILERS ****
Little makes sense here as contradictions just fly -
e.g., we hear that the man cannot go out with anyone other than prostitutes because he hasn't the time - and then watch him attend plays, go to the country for weekends, attend dog racing, and lie at home, bored with nothing to do.
e.g., we hear the man say that the notion of security risk from sexual blackmail ceased to exist forty years before - so he has no problem inviting a prostitute repeatedly to his home - and then we hear him say that he cannot visit the upscale neighborhood in which the prostitute lives because it would be a security risk.
e.g., we hear that the entire virtue of escort services is to assure sex to the busy man on the go. And then we see the prostitute arrogate to herself whether or not to have sex - and repeatedly refuse sex to men who have paid rather a lot for the presumed reliability. Nevertheless, we are told (unconvincingly) that the physically unattractive prostitute has become popular.
e.g., we are told repeatedly of the charm of the prostitue - but she is as coarse as anyone the viewer has ever seen, deeply insulting to all.
e.g., we are told of the astounding background in Middle Eastern affairs held by the prostitute - so why was she living in China "doing field work"?
e.g., we are told of the social panache of the prostitute - yet she turns up at a posh country house wearing completely the wrong clothes.
e.g., we are told that the reason the American woman is poverty-stricken is due to her "desire to live abroad" - since when are all positions overseas barred to those with doctorates from Harvard?
e.g., we are told that the man is a great statesman who has unparallelled skill in the negotiation of agreements between other countries - so why does he have a photograph of himself with a tyrant on his table at home?
**** SPOILERS END ****
This is a wretched movie - in which you yearn for someone to kill the pprotagonist - yet somehow they vainly try to make this wretched preening creature the subject of a romance.
Avoid this movie - it's just awful.
-- with a purportedly famous, successful, warm man who may soon be a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize - and what do you get?
One of the worst movies I've ever seen.
**** SPOILERS ****
Little makes sense here as contradictions just fly -
e.g., we hear that the man cannot go out with anyone other than prostitutes because he hasn't the time - and then watch him attend plays, go to the country for weekends, attend dog racing, and lie at home, bored with nothing to do.
e.g., we hear the man say that the notion of security risk from sexual blackmail ceased to exist forty years before - so he has no problem inviting a prostitute repeatedly to his home - and then we hear him say that he cannot visit the upscale neighborhood in which the prostitute lives because it would be a security risk.
e.g., we hear that the entire virtue of escort services is to assure sex to the busy man on the go. And then we see the prostitute arrogate to herself whether or not to have sex - and repeatedly refuse sex to men who have paid rather a lot for the presumed reliability. Nevertheless, we are told (unconvincingly) that the physically unattractive prostitute has become popular.
e.g., we are told repeatedly of the charm of the prostitue - but she is as coarse as anyone the viewer has ever seen, deeply insulting to all.
e.g., we are told of the astounding background in Middle Eastern affairs held by the prostitute - so why was she living in China "doing field work"?
e.g., we are told of the social panache of the prostitute - yet she turns up at a posh country house wearing completely the wrong clothes.
e.g., we are told that the reason the American woman is poverty-stricken is due to her "desire to live abroad" - since when are all positions overseas barred to those with doctorates from Harvard?
e.g., we are told that the man is a great statesman who has unparallelled skill in the negotiation of agreements between other countries - so why does he have a photograph of himself with a tyrant on his table at home?
**** SPOILERS END ****
This is a wretched movie - in which you yearn for someone to kill the pprotagonist - yet somehow they vainly try to make this wretched preening creature the subject of a romance.
Avoid this movie - it's just awful.