There's so much unresolved loneliness on view here. Worse yet, the man has not seen his father (presumably still alive and in the same job) since 1978. Having a modern consciousness about being a Black man, subject # 42 can't understand how his father degraded himself that way his father tells us that it is what he could do to keep food on the table and a roof over his family's heads. The best realized segment is about a man whose father worked six days a week as a men's room attendant. A graduate student is videotaping these men, working on her thesis project about how men navigate the post-feminist world.
This is a loosely connected series of monologues by men- young, mature, White, Black- who are bound only by the issues of being men in the confusing world we live in. If I'd seen it in a theater I'd probably have been crying at the end of it. I watched this on cable initially because of my admiration for David Foster Wallace's work.
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