A formulaic piece of existential garbage in which a couple of supposedly avant garde film makers show us that the struggle to live a decent life is meningless, and the effort to be a decent guy brings only contempt. They take a decent but boring mid-western guy, and visit every kind of tragedy and humiliation on him, and mock his religion to boot. Its boring, and its been done (by the French and Italians) a million times before. Save your time and money.