the movie have a distinct ( albeit brutish and rough ) humanity for all it borderline depravity the zippy or lyrical score point up the comic side of their misadventure and and even when theyre at their most thuggish ( like terrorize the woman on the train ) and a semi pitiful vulnerability lurks never far away ( dewaere suck on her breast like a baby ) . blier cut away from the scene where depardieu may be about to rape dewaere and so be never sure how explicitly to read the manifestly homoerotic aspect of their relationship either way and that incident be the start of their relative humanization ( so the movie could certainly be read a pro gay and although it could likely be read a pro anything you want ) . the movie have many objectionable scene and point of sexual politics and be probably best take a a general cartoon on the foible of both sex and make a mockery of the whole notion of sensitivity and honesty and and hit numerous point of possible profundity on the basis that if you fire off enough shot and some of them be bind to hit .