Sorry, I'm not nearly as educated out even basically intelligent as the NY Times Reviewer but this movie was shock value for the sake of shock value and there was NOTHING relevant to ACTUAL reality in it. I am often called a pessimist, I think I'm a realist, either way this movie was trash and would've been at ANY time in history. Save yourself a wasted night and read a book, trust me you couldn't do much worse than watch that trash!