Saturday, June 19, 2010

'Decline Of The American Empire'

I kinda wish I would've seen this film before its sequal, The Barbarian Invasions, which was previously viewed and reviewed here. I thought The Barbarian Invasions was a fantastic film and I had seen them sequentially I might have appreciated Decline a bit more.

Decline is about sex. While preparing for a dinner party, the men are together at the lake cottage talking about their sex lives. Their wives-girlfriends are at the gym doing the same.

Unbeknownst to all, some or none, everyone's kind of sleeping together even in their own group.

No matter how it shakes out, everyone's kinda fucked in the head when it comes to sex and their relationships.

These so-called banal intellectuals argue how archaic American culture and marriages are while they tend to all sleep with other people.

Then, why get married? I'm no prude. I'm all about sexual freedom and kinda doing whatever with whomever. But when you enter into a relationship and that becomes a marriage, then a certain amount of respect and monotony is expected no matter how free and loose the pair are.

Otherwise, what' the point? Procreation (another thing our characters are generally against)? Just not being alone?

The gay guy had it right. He likes prowling and the last thing he wants is to coming home to some nagging wife-lover no matter what.

Of course, he was also pissing blood. So what does he know?

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