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Churchgoers going astray - How would you have solved the drama?


Ben drinks himself to death. He seems a bit like a child of holy parents who model the lives of other people in a psychiatric and religious way. Women's problem i.e. job problem in the context of nature.

He meets the prostitute Sera. Sera is looking for a man for sex in the glamorous rule-driven society in Las Vegas. A man who lives well enough for her. With whom you can do it.

Ben wanted something other than sex from her and continued drinking. Maybe he should have asked “not with you at all”? Maybe he should have continued looking after the first meeting?

Once you've had sex reasonably well for the first time, you know how...otherwise you might even have to get some advice from somewhere.
If he is looking for a professional then he should have done it where he has more choice of women and can quickly find the one he is looking for. In some houses, out of hundreds of women on several floors, you can only find a handful of girls who fit.

For Sera, the story ends again as if she couldn't serve the perfect man well enough. You leave all external circumstances aside and concentrate on what is important. Life and sexuality as the most valuable... Maybe she should have lived under different circumstances first before leaving all of this out. Some students only do it in the evening to get to know rich and interesting men.


Conclusion:
A film like homework

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Interesting take. I personally think you are looking a little too deeply into it, when the intent of the film was more simplistic. Most movies that address alcoholism usually has a happy ending. This film is one of the rare few that explores what happens when a person just follows that demon until the bitter end. This movie is based on a book written by a man who did basically drink himself to death - John O'Brien. "Leaving Las Vegas" was his autobiography.




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