Rather than going to the effort of hiring actors, set designers, grips, best boys and caterers, why couldn't hot air auteurs like Bute simply get someone to film him on videotape, sitting in a chair and pontificating? What people admire about Bute -- the supposed cruel honesty -- I find mere contrariness and easy irony. Perhaps his next effort will be a kid's flick in which the little girl's bunny rabbit (surprise spoiler!) is put through a meat grinder in the last reel.
What's worse than his insipid insights is his failure to entertain. The movie is so stagebound that you cannot forget for a moment the fact that Bute is just a couple of feet offscreen manipulating the players. It would've been more honest and entertaining to have watched him than the action captured by the camera.
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