After watching this movie, I went to IMDB.com, and can’t believe that it got a lot of bad reviews from both users and external reviewers. The critic Ray Carney is right. When you present viewers with the truth, they don’t know what to make of it. We have been so used to the Hollywood type of filmmaking that we’re always expecting, subconsciously, to be told what to think. We want to have it easy. We want the filmmakers to think for us. We’ve become so intellectually and emotionally lazy. Intellectual and emotional couch potatoes.

Although the subject of the movie –- sex addiction –- is dealt with for the most part comically, it is still a truthful telling of this topic. The movie is telling us that this is how it is to be human. Sometimes, we just keep doing a particular thing because it’s who we are.

But I think the best feature of the movie is that it’s not just about sex addiction, it’s also about relationships, how relationships are impacted by who we really are. In other words, replace ‘sex addiction’ with another compulsion or another neurosis, and the movie is an instructive exploration of the dynamics of relationships.

I’m usually turned off nowadays by fancy editing, but in this case the visual playfulness is called for. For example, the movie itself suggests that the film’s lack of budget necessitates such an approach. Second, the editing is fun and humorous, and thus, entertaining. The editing’s self-reflexivity also is fresh. It’s as if the movie/filmmakers are saying, we may not have all the resources, but we’re doing the best we can to tell it. In this sense, it is honest.

Which brings us to the movie’s main strength. The movie is an experimentation in honesty. Can an honest movie move as much as a more traditionally structured movie? This movie eventually proves that it can, and more. And because of this quality, I think the best way to appreciate this movie is to just forget all that we’ve been conditioned to think about filmmaking. Rather, be sensitive to what’s going on among the characters. Be sensitive to what it reminds you about your own relationships. Be sensitive to how it is to interact with another human being, with a loved one. It is only in this kind of approach that we will be able to get to the truth/core of the movie.