EATING OUT

Lively black comedy about the aftershocks of the sexual revolution in America. It shows the affects of accepting the credo of no emotional repression as a mantra as the inevitable acceptance of criminality as a valid lifestyle choice. In this it is not the apologist for such excess that it seems to be but a conservative riposte to such excess.

Yet the visual explicitness is troubling since it tends to give the impression of valorizing and validating a sexual revolution that only represented freedom for male rapaciousness – with little to offer women. However, the deadpan style cleverly exacerbates the feeling of the emptiness of the characters' lives that is only solaced by sexual promiscuity. A pleasing look at the moral vacuum of Western culture that refuses to look too deeply at its own subject resulting mainly from weak characterization.