Review of A Short Film About Love

The screenplay is written from the pov of a twenty-something, overly-sensitive boy/man who sometimes succumbs to masochistic tendencies. And written for same. Story is about an average looking, withdrawn, personality-less 19 year old male who obsessively voyeuristically watches an attractive, mature and sexy woman in various stages of undress and in various sexual positions with a boyfriend. Thwock, thwock, thwock. In a not-to-be-believed circumstance (well, it IS his fantasy after all!) young man gets physically close to the woman, has his hands moving up her bare thighs.....but before he gets to the prize......has a premature orgasm. Thwock, thwock, thwock, thwock. Neatly and virtually painlessly punishes himself for this by cutting both wrists with a flimsy double-edged shaving blade (more self-inflicted pain but photographed in a beautiful, melodramatic, theatrical way). (Cue violins.) Survives the attempt and then rejects the she-devil he so previously desired. (In an interview on the disc the actress tells how the original ending had the kid coldly repudiate the woman. Very telling this ending because, you see, he triumphs over her and "that'll show you, now that you're interested in little old boring me! Or as Groucho said, "I wouldn't join any club that would have me as a member!) Climax!