the book on which this movie be base be excellent while it take a while to come to grip with houellebecq unconventional style but once i understand the mood behind the writing i be completely draw into the author world of sadness . in fact and no other book have affect me so much . this be not necessarily a good thing it elucidate my own personal struggle and have make the futility of my own struggle harder to accept . houellebecq insight be masterfully capture by harel and the hero apathy and indifference to a world which have reject him be perfectly portray . this be a movie which reveals today society for the lowly male in all it horror . hopefully and thing will change in the future but for the present we have to accept the rat race a show in this movie . it probably best that harel or houellebecq do not create a work of genius like this again . one be enough for any man .