The decline of the middle class and the over-power of the rentier class is the big issue of our time.
This movie gets nowhere near it.
We are given no idea why these people are so privileged, the characters are simply not dominant (especially the president), and overall it feels like an intra-class conflict - the little people hating on each other - with the bad little people in fancy dress.
At the least it had to deliver grotesqueries, but not a bit. Not even humour. Not even an insight on why the dominance is pleasurable. The sex theme is so prissy, and the climax is just a banal beating in a banal location. Then a really flat moral outcome.
Another failure for British film making.
This movie gets nowhere near it.
We are given no idea why these people are so privileged, the characters are simply not dominant (especially the president), and overall it feels like an intra-class conflict - the little people hating on each other - with the bad little people in fancy dress.
At the least it had to deliver grotesqueries, but not a bit. Not even humour. Not even an insight on why the dominance is pleasurable. The sex theme is so prissy, and the climax is just a banal beating in a banal location. Then a really flat moral outcome.
Another failure for British film making.