history and experience over the past couple of decade have show u that intellectual talk about sex be about the unsexiest and unintellectual thing anyone can do and but this wasn not quite a obvious back in 1986. basically and the idea in this film be that these character insatiable drive to find comfort and security and and pleasure in sexual act be actually the unhealthy motive that make them so unbearable to themselves which they hide from themselves with more sex . this drive be link to the decline of the american empire and a express in an early interview within the movie . so the idea be that relatively detestable people talk about sex and and that that talk be suppose to reveal how detestable they be a people . arcand at least keep give it drive and momentum by do interesting thing with the camera such a isolate most of the character in single frame and reveal their ultimate loneliness and and cut rapidly between them and show how they be more at war with each other than they be at agreement . and to give arcand credit and this be pretty much what intellectual life be and a constant struggle with other intellectual to stand out and even when everyone know that stand out mean stand alone . but yeah and the character and action be unsexy and kind of pathetic . i think this film be much more an aspect of it time than it be something meant to last and which make it kind of date . it also the exact type of mental buffing in dialog and reference to people like susan sontag that make art house film so unpopular around the populist entertainment moviegoer . in all and i will take it anyway it have it place basically among the exact type of people the character be it just that it not really interesting or important to anyone who isn not those character . polarisdib .