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“𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘶𝘱𝘴…𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦. 𝘕𝘰𝘸, 𝘶𝘯𝘸𝘳𝘢𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘵.” The kind of film where too much control is given to the writer/director where an insularity revolves around psyche versus actual narrative storytelling. Byrum pivots between different players to lash out an interesting part of film history, but really lays out personal critique and biases around the battle of the sexes. Byrum wants to tell you what sex is, how it moves. He mansplains it to you. And then it becomes derivative in its last act, falls short, shows the shortcomings of man himself, but also Byrum as director himself. Stilted in its teleplay format. Not enough love is even given to his characters, where they are talking heads of Byrum’s morals than actual people. But the players themselves give it their all. Dreyfuss does the great balancing act of insane and in-tune to play out Bryan’s stream of consciousness. It’s funny what you can get away with when it comes to New Hollywood. You get to go back to old Hollywood, back to the stag films, and make a nuisance out of it all. “𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴, 𝘴𝘦𝘹 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘶𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵.”