“The casting here is important, because an unrealistically good-looking female lead would have strained credulity. Williams is cute, but not hot. She has a thick Teutonic neck, a slight belly roll, narrow hips, and an incipient double chin lurking underneath her long flowing blonde locks. That her cuteness is physically grounded like this helps explain why a guy of Dean’s caliber can feel simultaneously awed by her beauty and motivated by her attainability. Williams’ pedestrian 7 or 7.5 ranking delivers the message that exquisite female beauty is not the only instability factor that can corrupt a marriage; a man’s betaness can do the same.

The critical Chateau (and game) themes this movie hits upon include:

- alpha pump and dumps and beta providers and how women react to each type of man
- negs (AKA teasing) as a pivotal component of successful courtships
- the never-ending cycle of female shit testing
- the flame-out of male shit test failing
- forcing closeness before attraction is built
- the near impossibility of reviving a woman’s love after it has been squandered by beta behavior
- the deviousness of a woman’s female friends
- the well-poisoning that ensues when a woman gains higher social status than her husband
- the absolute irrelevancy of children to influence the modern woman with regard to her relationship choices
- the influence of competitor alpha males on a woman’s relationship trajectory
- the misguided idealism and romanticism of kind-hearted men
- the utter cluelessness of kind-hearted men about the nature of women
- the brute self-denial men practice when they project their romanticism onto women
- the inability of women to understand — let alone control — their own maelstrom of emotions
- the wisdom of the 2/3rds rule when expressing sentiments of love
- the recklessness and stupidity with which the lower classes careen in and out of relationships
- how easily unenlightened men are blindsided by women’s biomachinations
- how easily women can be bedded with simple charm
- how complimenting a woman can turn her off
- how a failing relationship can cause a man to forget what he did to attract the woman
- how a man can lose his sense of self when he allows himself to be defined by the strength of his LTR or marriage
- the foolishness of pursuing a relationship with a single mom
- and the tingle-killer of excessive self-deprecation.”
 

how do these people exist