Movies do a great job of showing what is wrong in people's lives. Max's friends are boring, trite, self-absorbed, phony and tiring. All true. Who would want to live in that horrible world of pretense and deceit? (And yes, I am exaggerating quite a bit....)But what does he have in the hypnotizing world with Nora? We never see them talk. They have no relationship outside sex. And we already see that tapering off. They do nothing. Say nothing. Go nowhere. Have no interests. Life is about more than copulation and fellatio, no matter how skillfully performed. There are many hours spent that are not in bed. What did these people do during that time? He loves her? Yeah sure.....why?Lots of well-worn clichés to fill in the time. Lots of slow-mo sex footage to make the essentially empty film last longer. I bet the novel was interesting. The film was not.