Being a human being myself, I am aware that human beings are animals - and this film was 3 hours of meaningless exploration of the fact that human beings are animals. So though this film has all the hallmarks of a good movie, it lacks substance.

Perhaps the story itself was unworthy of a film of this stature, in which case it's a shame that the director's considerable skills and talents were wasted on a shallow subject. The improbably crazy and generally icky scenarios the story contains might have seemed like the stuff of good cinema to the producers, but without a thread of meaning stringing them together, viewers might as well watch "scripted reality."