This film has high points and low points. It's well worth sitting through it though. When it hits it really hits but it's with darker satire than we might usually expect. I know it made some audiences so uncomfortable in places they left during the screenings.
The Oliver style commentary on birth control and religion, is quite astonishing really, as is the Mr Creosote sketch (Even Tarantino thought that was the grossest thing he'd seen). I don't think I've seen satire quite that effective and quite that dark. The hospital sketch has a lot to say on the notion of medicine as a function of capitalism and the sex education sketch speaks volumes about how sex has been reduced to something so routine and functional (it's worse now with the explosion of online porn) that school kids are totally bored by it.
Genuinely watch it all if you haven't.
The Oliver style commentary on birth control and religion, is quite astonishing really, as is the Mr Creosote sketch (Even Tarantino thought that was the grossest thing he'd seen). I don't think I've seen satire quite that effective and quite that dark. The hospital sketch has a lot to say on the notion of medicine as a function of capitalism and the sex education sketch speaks volumes about how sex has been reduced to something so routine and functional (it's worse now with the explosion of online porn) that school kids are totally bored by it.
Genuinely watch it all if you haven't.