it funny . i have see a bunch of fassbinder film and i have find some to be extremely creative and interesting and while others be repellent and self indulgent mess like this film . for me and it range from great to crap without much in the middle . i know he have a lot of fan among the sophisticated and but i can not help but think that a lot of his appeal be pure hype . from my point of view ( and i know i will get a lot of negative rating for this ) and he make too many movie too quickly and be too self indulgent . his gay or gender bending film ( like this one ) tend to be really bad sloppily do and sometimes quite boring ( such a querelle and the bitter tear of petra von kant ) and sometimes just gross ( like this film ) . couldn not his message about acceptance of a person gender confusion be handle good than show him get slap around or watch cow be gruesomely slaughter . show some sensitivity for the subject matter and make your character more human and sympathetic then and maybe and i would care about the film . i be honestly at the point after watch this film that i might not bother with any more fassbinder film the bad seem to be out weigh the good .