As a culture assimilation movie, this one trodded heavily and predictably. It was not sophisticated and nuanced like "Sublet". Instead we had a harsh hypocrisy throughout behind the mask of a commercial sense of success. Even Ryan was handled combatively being fired twice behind the cloak of cut-throat business. So, the undue external influences make for a very contrived movie of martyrs in their chosen roles as ambitious for success... and ambition wins for one, and not the other. This is a trope that we have seen exhaustively. The sexuality was just a prop and an unnecessary aside: two actors on the cross of ambition and success.
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