gerard be a writer with a somewhat overactive imagination . he be also homosexual and catholic prone to catholic guilt and something of a clairvoyant and or so it seem . on a trip to flush he be educe by christine . when he discover that christine new boyfriend be the bit of rough trade he be fancy from afar he decide to stick around . after all and enforce heterosexuality have it compensation . then he realize that christine previous three husband have all die violent death . do christine murder them and be he or the boyfriend and herman and go to be the fourth man . verhoeven overheated and over egged melodrama be a delicious blend of hitchcock and david lynch and full of ott eroticism and religious imagery and an awful lot of the colour red . a lot of the time it look and feel like a dream and we can never be sure that what we be see be real or a figment of gerard imagination . the fun be in figure it out . also the fact that christine be an infinitely more likable character that either the priggish gerard or the bullish herman mean we be hardly like to root for either of the men over her . in fact and it fair to say gerard comeuppance can not come soon enough . super performance and too and from jeroen krabbe and renee soutendijk and easily verhoeven best film up to his wonderfully subversive piece of sci fi starship trooper .