Plot: A man battling sex addiction has his life thrown into a mess of chaos when his sister moves in with him and she starts to date his boss.
I have been hearing nothing but good stuff about this movie for the last three months, and had the chance to rent it.
The first few minutes are a series of shots of the lead actor naked, only you don't see his face. Just the mid torso down, as he walks to and from the camera. It sets the tone in more ways then one.
He's faceless therefore you can not connect with the character. Which is the idea of the film. The lead never connects and we're not suppose to connect with him.
As I was talking about this film earlier, I made the comment that it feels like the two leads have had an incestuous relationship in the past which seems to play out in the way that the character of the sister keeps trying to gain comfort from her brother by climbing into his bed. Though it's never said straight out if that is the idea behind their reactions to each other.
Her actions are classic traits a woman would use to make an ex jealous, that it leaves little space for any other conclusion.
The title of the movie comes in the forms of the lead having his boss complain about how much porn was found on his work computer saying that someone would have to be really sick to watch the amount of stuff on there, and when his sister walks in on him masturbating calling him a freak.
This propels the lead to throw everything in the trash, his pornography collection, toys, condoms and his laptop. He then tries to have a normal relationship with a co-worker but just can't seem to get it up. He then goes out and has sex with a series of prostitutes before finding himself in a gay bar and picking up a random man for oral sex.
The movie itself is grey, cold, dislodged, and had me thinking of the Christian Bale movie American Psycho, which also deals with a man who can not connect emotionally.
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