The Adjuster (1991)
8/10
Entertaining and strange at the same time
3 April 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This movie is entertaining, which is (supposed) to be the reason movies are made. It is that, and not bad.

The movie is also very, very strange. I don't understand the sexual inherency in almost every scene, and the "insurance adjuster" is just very creepy how he interacts with the people filing insurance claims. Having worked as an insurance estimator, I am sure that nothing even remotely similar has ever happened in real life, other than that people have to deal with adjusters to settle claims.

The scenes with the wealthy couple that sexually act out in public seem to be trying to say something, but I am not sure what, exactly. You can see the husband's pain, for example, at the football field when his wife is being "serviced" by a "football player" only moments after she tenderly touched his face and related how good he was to her. He and his wife are also apparently socially unaware of real people and how they react to others. I guess they remind me of a sexualized version of the wealthy couple on Gilligan's Island, unaware of how regular people think and feel. They do extravagant things to prevent being bored.

The adjuster's wife, who literally watches porn for a living, is very alluring, I keep expecting more meaning from each scene with her. The scenes of her at work, interacting with her coworkers, are interesting. Her lack of physical response to the graphic sex she watches is a nice contrast, an interesting character study. She asks her husband if he feels stupid in a way that is not even a little insulting, even though it should be.

Overall, I have seen far worse movies. This is certainly worth watching, if only as a study in how some people interpret life.
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