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A Complete History of My Sexual Failures
The egocentric documentary-maker Chris Waitt traces his romantic ineptitude and sexual impotence through awkward interviews with irate ex-girlfriends and stunts involving S&M parlours, Harley Street doctors and Viagra overdoses. The results are often hilarious, sometimes moving and speak directly to the hapless paramour in all of us.
Release : | 2008 |
Rating : | 6.2 |
Studio : | EM Media, UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire, |
Crew : | Director, Writer, |
Cast : | Chris Waitt |
Genre : | Documentary Romance |
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Such a frustrating disappointment
Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
Fantastic!
It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.
This looked like a documentary about someone who's intentions were quite serious. However, at the end the doc takes a bizarre turn when he takes viagra and starts chasing women on the street. I guess the maker lost me there, as well as my interest.
Let's face it, everyone is (at some level) interested in the sexual lives of others; but beware the film-maker whose only idea for a film is to take you on his own personal journey. In this "documentary" (the quotes are used with care), Chris Wiatt aims to explore his own history of self-confessed romantic disaster. It sounds intriguing, but we soon discover that Wiatt is unemployed, depressed, lazy, stupid, dirty and above all else, spectacularly (and arguably unbelievably) un-self aware. And it's hard to believe that at least some of this isn't a pose. Certainly, there are actions he undertakes which he surely would not have done if he wasn't making a film about himself; some of his exes hint at really bad behaviour on his part which he never acknowledges; and in places, one wonders if the whole thing isn't a Borat-style send up. Perhaps the most amazing thing of all is that, if one is to assume that the film is at least partly genuine, that a surprising number of really quite attractive women have been out with this guy; two, it is implied, even sleep with him during the course of it's making; and finally it concludes with a cod-satisfying end when he actually finds a new partner at the very point of despair. And yet... like I said, we're all interested in other people's private lives. After all, I watched this film in spite of suspecting in advance what it would be like; you probably did too.
Just watched this film and I have got to say it stirred up some mixed emotions! On the one hand Chris goes around stating his failure with women and that all his former girlfriends have dumped him. Well apart from his erectile dysfunction the guy does not do too bad. He never seems short of dates and some of the girls are quite desirable. On the one hand I felt some empathy towards the guy and on the other not. He seems the master of his own demise and his lack of punctuality, commitment is maybe the quite obvious route of his problems. His experiment with Viagra is quite unsettling. Especially when he goes on the rampage in search if a quick sexual fix. All in all a quite thought provoking film which makes for a refreshing change to the usual mainstream dross on offer.
While I have some admiration for the concept underlying this movie - a filmmaker retracing his steps to try to establish why he has been such a sexual failure, filmed as a documentary - and, while I found some of it quite funny, it suffered fatally from three things: 1. It was a one-note joke, which became stale quite quickly; 2. The fact that much of it seemed genuine, but some (at least) of it was quite clearly set-up meant that you couldn't fully accept it as either genuine or fictitious, as a result of which it failed to be valid as either; 3. The protagonist became, quite frankly, a complete pain in the *rse after a fairly short while.Sorry, but no thanks.