This movie is just crazy enough to work. There are flaws. Like, for one, I couldn’t tell if the lead actors were brilliant or awful. (If you consider that young lead Matthew Barry left his acting career to become a casting director, this might shed some light.) And there are a handful of scenes that just kinda go on and on. The 142 minutes should have been 120. Still, there are moments here that are just staggering. And, yeah, the drug addiction and incest are shocking, but less so than the camera work and overall tone. The non-verbal pre-title sequence had me in a sweat it was so good. The big ending, while a little silly from a story perspective, had members of the AMMI literally shouting “Bravo!” (The ending is at an opera, so it kinda worked.) Recommended.