besides some of the plot hole that i still can not figure out and i be rather captivate by the die gaul . for the love of god and someone give peter sarsgaard an oscar already if not for this movie and then just for everything he ever do . sarsgaard effortlessly steal every scene he in . in the dying gaul he play robert and a gay screenwriter who be still mourn the death of his lover and malcolm . he still sleep with malcolm pajama and put them back into a ziploc baggie at the end of each night . robert write a script base on malcolm slow and painful death and call it the die gaul . jeffrey ( campbell scott ) be a big time hollywood producer who want to make robert film on the condition that robert write out all of the homosexual content . jeffrey tell him and most american hate gay people and wouldn not you agree . the irony be that jeffrey be attract to robert and start an affair with him and behind his wife back . it get more bizarre when jeffrey wife and elaine ( patricia clarkson ) and become obsess with robert . when she learn that her husband be sleep with robert and all hell break loose literally . the depth that these character go to in order to punish and torture each other be evil incarnate . the die gaul be hard to follow at time and but it brilliant and painful and shocking and and sarsgaard deserve a damn oscar already .