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March 14, 2003
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Just Exactly
We just finished watching The Rules of Attraction and upon googling for more information about it, I found that Roger Ebert quite efficiently captured almost my exact feelings about the film in his review:
"Avary weaves his stories with zest and wicked energy, and finds a visual style that matches the emotional fragmentation. I have no complaints about the acting, and especially liked the way Sossamon kept a kind of impertinent distance from some of the excesses. But by the end, I felt a sad indifference. These characters are not from life and do not form into a useful fiction. Their excesses of sex and substance abuse are physically unwise, financially unlikely and emotionally impossible. I do not censor their behavior but lament the movie's fascination with it. They do not say and perhaps do not think anything interesting."The movie is visually engaging but that's about it. Bret Easton Ellis is a master of putting you through an endless line of hard to watch scenes with no redemptive quality. What a waste.