The Man From Elysian Fields Movie Review Message Board and Comments

Your review was great although I didn't agree with your opinion of the film making. I found the story-telling to be powerful in that it projected the blanket of sadness that covered all the characters in the story. Luther's affair with his client was not so pointless in that it emphasized the loneliness of the ageing escort who now thought that he had found love (remember, he had decided to retire from the business). There was a powerful message in her response to his proposal: she had only ever viewed him as a prostitute and had no intention of leaving her husband for him. It was a similar message that Byron gets from Tobias’s wife after Tobias dies. Byron’s supporting character (the other male escort working in Luther’s business) delivers a great line when he is asked by Byron’s wife why would a man be an escort; he replies “when a man feels impotent, all he has left is f**king”. Perhaps the message of this film has more to do with the folly of how a male sees himself in the eyes of the woman or women he is bedding versus the reality of how they might actually see him: we are not necessarily adored just because we are fun and a good lay!