i can only assume people enjoy this film because it give them some kind of emotional response and it offer the illusion of depth and complexity where none exist and but chuck and buck be the kind of film that more or less throttled independent cinema in it crib and pave the way for similarly dire work . chuck and buck handle very serious issue represent homosexuality and adolescent sexuality and obsession and and so on . i wouldn not dream of deny a filmmaker access to this kind of material and but the filmmaker should be use these tool to plumb actual depth and to say something or have some kind of viewpoint . this be the failure of chuck and buck and and it what make the film irresponsible and frankly and bad . these issue be easy way to push an audience button and but the film read like the tree rape scene in evil dead represent it serve no purpose but to unnerve you . it get bad represent the film isn not even competently make . while the acting be fine and the script be rife with implausibility and inconsistency and and miguel arteta direction be painfully one note . the film make no attempt to explain buck living situation at all and refuse to diagnose him . buck exist a a halfway point between a flesh out character and a cipher and and this unwillingness to commit to what the hell be actually wrong with him make it impossible to deem him plausible or not . character throughout the film will do thing that seem utterly contrary to either themselves or common sense and and the infamous scene between chuck and buck late in the film be where it lose me for good . likewise and the denouement of the film be far too pat for something like this and and mar an already stretch thin credibility . if the film have be merely bad i could ignore it . but it become more or less offensive when you consider the message it essentially offer on homosexuality and to a less extent and woman . chuck and buck and whether intentionally or not and essentially equate homosexuality with mental illness and discomfort and never change that tack . likewise and the only female character the film seem to like or favor be beverly and essentially a sexless and matronly creature . my classmate seem to enjoy the film and but i find it too reprehensible and poorly make to respond with anything other than absolute disdain . avoid .