This was an interesting watch. Brutal, dark secrets that everyone both conceals and knows, the desire to hurt and be hurt, betrayals, taboos, for a bit you might suspect it's satire, but it's not - if you're paying attention. Like - "The Office", by which I refer to the original - was satire only if you had never worked in an office.
I was intrigued by it, a little bit baffled, certainly Verhoeven's richest work that I've seen, driven more by the people and circumstance, less "2-D" and richer characters than his other films.
It reminded me how much I like, how I need to watch more European cinema.