Review of The Loss of Sexual Innocence

People criticizing this do not understand true art. They totally misunderstand what it means to be human. As an American, I took this to be a statement on British life and, to a lesser extent, modern European man, as well. This has a series of very poignant vignettes that appeal on a human level to all people, and yet works so well as a Euro story as well! This isn't so much about the main character Nick (BTW I LOVE Julian Sands), but about post modern life of Westerners in general. It does the postmodern "thing" much more effectively than Pulp Fiction ever could have!! This is as close to a Spaghetti Western as you'll get. Among the more memorable scenes are: Nick as a young man, witnessing a girlfriend's dad dying of something like cancer, struggling in agony, ignoring him and taking the Lord's name in vain as he chugs pain medicine. Another scene where he stumbles upon pornography clogging a gas station toilet, preventing him from using it. The scene where two illegitimate twins get separated by a group of nuns. One is Italian and a lesbian; the other is English and single. Another scene where Nick is bothered by the wrong type of attention by a disturbed man on a subway. I believe this is about, at least partially, Nick's awkward walk in life where he struggles for attention and approval from others, and finds none, or else the wrong type of attention. The religious elements are just there to give a McGuffin to the story, to mislead, I think... I believe the artistic statement of this movie us: the folly of man in the face of true religion. How lost man is, how underdeveloped he is in the face of God, and how man's interpretation of religion causes men like Nick to struggle in his pursuit of life in the flesh??... That's my take...