director paul verhoeven american vehicle be of varied quality and but most of the film he make in his native country be indisputable masterworks . this be the story of alcoholic ( and bi sexual ) writer who move in with a beautiful rich and very strange woman . but the lady do not know that he be only interested in meet the woman handsome male lover . in the meantime and the writer be plague with strange vision at first they look like hallucination trigger by alcohol abuse and but he soon begin to realize that he be actually experience some kind of premonition . fascinate hitchcockian thriller and very original and provocative . i love film that make you think they be about something and but then you realize they be about something completely different . this be one of those movie while a thriller during the first half and and a quasi religious surrealist saga during the second half . very erotic and original and blasphemous and not for kid or people that go to church every sunday . great cinematography by future director jan de bont . highly reommended .