brief interviews with hideous men book review

Or maybe they go back to their friends and say, 'Listen, he only has one arm, the least I could do is sleep with him.' Who comes out better in a situation like this? (4) Maybe they feel loving and generous and sensitive ignoring this guy's arm and sleeping with him. And are the women really being preyed upon? Do they feel used? Maybe not. Calling it The Asset is clearly a coping mechanism, a way of dealing with a horrific accident. Despite his bravado re: his arm and his view of it as a tool, as a means to bedding women, he is still disabled, still without the use of his right arm. It's disgusting, right? Well, let's unpack this a bit. Instead of viewing this as a disability, Subject #40 dubs his amputated arm 'The Asset' and uses it to make women feel sorry for him, and later sleep with him. Some of the interviews seem to bear this out: Subject #40, played by a wise-talking Bobby Cannavale, has only half of his right arm, the other half (we assume) lost in an industrial plant accident. Sara's interviewees are ostensibly boorish, infantile, infantilizing, perverse, uncaring, shallow - in a word, heinous. (3) But we see that she's at least distracted - she gets a short, emo haircut and listens to her iPod a lot - if not heartbroken, so we assume the relationship was pretty serious.

The viewer doesn't get any real sense of their relationship beyond a few flashbacks - one of Ryan goofily raising his wine glass to Sara another at a dinner party, where Ryan launches into a Billy Joel tune on the piano, inspiring a hackneyed group-sing that seems lifted from You've Got Mail. The impetus for the switch is her breakup with Ryan/Subject #20, played by John Krasinski. Or I'll just say 'Wallace's book.') Sara Quinn (Julianne Nicholson), a graduate student in anthropology at an unnamed East Coast school (2) studying the feminist movement, switches her focus from women to men and begins a series of interviews in an attempt to uncover the lingering impact of feminism on the male psyche. (For clarity's sake, I'll italicize when talking about Wallace's book. This is more or less where 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men' picks up.

Brief interviews with hideous men book review