The Adjuster (1991)
6/10
sexual perversion looking for meaning
18 June 2015
Noah (Elias Koteas) is an insurance adjuster. He sleeps with ladies who suffered lost and Arianne (Jennifer Dale) is the latest one who lost her home to fire. His wife Hera (Arsinée Khanjian) watches movies for the Board of Censors and she secretly films the most brutal. They have a son with Hera's sister are the only ones living in one of the model homes in an undeveloped field. Tyler (Don McKellar) is a new reviewer for the Censors. Bubba (Maury Chaykin) is a pornographer who's interested in Noah's house. There is also a sex pervert stalker.

I'm not sure what Atom Egoyan is trying to get at other than bring together a lot of the characters' dark side. The quest for a plot is left to the audience. It's a movie with a theme more than a story. One can really debate the point of each character and their significance. It's great to use modern sexual perversion as a launching off point but I like a story that moves more. It's a bit too slow and therefore feels repetitive with pregnant pauses. It's a movie that feels like it's saying something although I'll be damned if I know exactly what that is.
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