Because the movie is so ambitious, it would have to be crystal clear to obtain its goal of truly revealing all the characters, at least to the point of acceptance by the viewer that you are seeing a real person. I just would like to emphasize that one relationship had my interest and has my censure. This was a psychiatrist and his beautiful wife who had been his patient. It is totally inappropriate for a psychiatrist to have sex with his/her client. The character of the wife had been betrayed and knew it. The psychiatrist could not see beyond his own desires - at best he found redemption in his wife's arms - but that was not her price to pay. It was his. I acknowledge that there is a school of psychiatry that promotes sexual relations between therapist and client. This is nonsense and foolishness. The client is in therapy because other people earlier in life crossed boundaries that should have remained intact, a glib summing up I realize. Anyway for the therapist to also violate boundaries which in most states and provinces s/he is bound by oath NOT to cross is an evil in its own category. Shame on him (the 'psychiatrist' in the film.)