I really hated this one. It started with an unfunny sex scene and went downhill from there.
We follow an everycouple as they go from place to place and deal with absurd grotesques who are supposed to represent a cross-section of contemporary life. Very crude and heavy-handed. I constantly felt I was being treated like a moron. A couple of chuckles didn't help pull this off the dung heap. Written by Dave Eggers which explains a lot...I hated his book too.
Mendes three films show an unmistakable contempt for American society. He needs to deal with a subject with which he is at least a little more familiar.
The last ten minutes or so were a sweet grace note but he lost me long before then.
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