This film to me is about redeeming qualities of however flawed personalities. There is no evil here, and in this sense it is not very American, in a more puritan, Manichean sense. We are led to believe that the wrongfulness of people's behavior has more to do with unthoughtfulness or carelessness, than plain wicked nature or ingrained vice. Very refreshing.
Yet, precisely for this reason, the film would have been stronger if the plot strains credibility a bit less. It is a comedy about the reality of human conditions , if you will, therefore it must present a illusion of some sort of reality. The writer/director, hoever, indulges in too many caricatures and cartoonish turns of events to stay close to that illusion of reality. Too bad.
The film could have been enlightening; now it is only entertaining.
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