A friend of his wife catches him exchanging tender looks and gestures with another woman. His wife tells him he is a bastard, what can he say to defend himself... the guy caught in a corner chooses to attack. Is attack the best defense? You wonder why a guy having his life would cheat.
This first part of the movies is very funny because the guy tells aloud what everybody thinks but does not dare to say. You do not feel sympathy for him, his is a bastard in a way but his is not completely wrong in what he says.
Nonetheless you wonder what is happening, why he is so hard on the kids for example... if you are alert you can guess what is unfolding. I do not want to say more because I would give the plot away, but here and there you have clues that can make you guess way before the end.
At one point he is driving his car and listens to a famous French song 'J'ai oublié de vivre' (I forgot to live) by Johnny Hallyday. It is important to have a sound track in your life, this MP3 players are great... I converted late to this new technology but this is great... sorry get carried away here! My life is a movie... a musical comedy, a drama would my sisters say!!!! I should grow up. It is true you can have all the important songs with you all the time... if this is not progress!!!!
In a nutshell this movie is great, sometimes you feel like this guy you just want to tell to everybody what you really think, just because you need to let it go out... so go for the beginning of the movie, you will certainly laugh... and then you will understand. It is really worth it.
