Annabelle Crabb
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So it was kind of that was the scene.
I mean, for me the high point of the film, so Roy Scheider was amazing.
The film reminded me a little bit of the Michael Fassbender film Shame where he's a sex addict.
He's a guy who works in like finance or something in New York and he's a sex addict and he's basically, his life's being destroyed by his addiction to sort of casual anonymous sex with people and it just gets worse and worse as the film goes on and he kind of wakes up every day and it's a bit Groundhog Day and he can't escape it and that's a little bit like,
the character in this film there's a lot of self-destructive behavior that feels fun at the time but is kind of just ruining his life um and every you know the film periodically starts with him getting up and he pops some pills to wake up and he
Kind of looks in the mirror and tries to get his razzle-dazzle happening and so on.
But the high point, as you say, is the choreography.
His girlfriend is played by the Broadway legend Anne Reinking and she's just absolutely wonderful.
But he makes the re-edition like... Wow.
The bit that I was going to say was the high point other than her terrific performance and Roy Scheider was amazing too, especially because...
I mostly know him from Jaws, so it's such a wild change.
There's a sequence in the middle where the Bob Fosse character's working on this show and the producers, the money people, come in to watch it.
And they do this incredible dance sequence and then it segues into they basically strip off and do this almost kind of β well, for the 70s it would have been porn.
For the 2020s it looks pretty tame.