The final indignity that Noé heaps upon Murphy is the dreadful little moustache that he wears after settling down, down, down with his hated (blameless) girlfriend and baby. Murphy`s brief attempts to try out more challenging sexual experiences quickly run aground on his profound conservatism and downright cowardice, despite his pretensions otherwise. The two women in his life are both beautifully acted, and the explicit vanilla sex is there to show the somewhat unimaginative nature of the US dominated porn industry. Murphy`s relentless charmlessness is either the result of inspired acting, inspired directing, or inspired casting, as it initially comes across as the actor having a go at a bit of improvisation with the absence of any talent to so do, but that`s before you realise that he is meant to be spectacularly lacking in talent or the awareness that he has no talent. The cop gives a sharp synopsis of the US enthusiasm for violence, and of course the fact that this liberal critique comes out of the mouth of a French cop is very drole. Once you get the comic intent, it starts to make a lot of sense, and one of the high points was the well-meaning lecture given to Murphy by one of the cops who arrested him after a particularly infantile episode of violence at an otherwise sophisticated arty-farty-party. The (American) main character Murphy has not been given a single line of dialogue which is anything other than dim, earnest teenage angst-gruel at best, and pre-teen ultra-sulky poor me-isms at worst. Gaspar Noé is having an awful lot of fun with this film, which is basically an almighty mickey-take of US culture in general, and US film-making in particular. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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