Saturday, October 23, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
The Game of Monogamy
Dropping back onto the determination of a man not wanting to face down a second divorce, Kasher works his way through the mundane moments of married life. Those painful, painful mundane moments: The Game of Monogamy peeks in on a narrator desperately trying to hold a mature relationship together after every bit of novelty's worn down to a nub. One song, he's looking up old girlfriends on Facebook, the next, he's sitting through another couple's ten-year anniversary party marveling in the boring ironies of attending the affair with a woman who he's utterly bored with. He even skips out on the relationship for a bit -- but only long enough to realize how much he's come to cherish everything he thought he loved about the same-old, same-old of a committed relationship. If it's not quite Romeo and Juliet, it's not quite War of the Roses either. Monogamy is a bitch, Kasher tells us, but it's sure better than the alternative.
Monogamy is hard work. Kasher's impressed us with that fact a couple times now. This time around, perhaps with the help of maturity and hindsight, The Game of Monogamy is ready to see it through to the end. It's not a fairytale ending, but it's a realistic ending. There's no happily ever after. Get used to it, kids.
—Reviewed by; Matt Schild, [aversion.com]
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