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movie review - The 40-Year-Old Virgin

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2006.08.19

This is an unlikely movie about a guy who somehow remains a virgin until the age of forty. It's a fairly silly comedy, and so it shouldn't be taken seriously. Yet it manages to not be sexy-silly or to treat its subject appropriately or to be at all kind to the lead character. For instance they set up a bunch of stupid reasons why he's still a virgin and depict him doing things a ten-year-old would, like obsess over "action figures". In fact, the director doesn't really seem to have a goal here and doesn't do much more than assemble a bunch of awful-to-some-degree people and turn them loose around this theme. I looked into the writer/director, I'm concerned for him - his work seems to give Woody Allen vibe.

Not recommended.

rand()m quote

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

—Siddhārtha Gautama (The Buddha)