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| The white man stands alone. Photo courtesy of tomcruise.com |
There comes a point in every successful doctor’s life when his family is home for the evening; his daughter is tucked into bed for the night and his classy wife decides to get stoned and tell a story about another man, making him so jealous that he must embark on a psychosexual odyssey through the seedy underbelly of humanity.
By exploring the dark crevices of a society dwelling amongst the earth, Dr. William Harford, also known as Bill, is in actuality undertaking a deep search through the inner chambers of his own perseity. One gets the strong sense that Bill is a profound intellectual resisting the daftly insipid plotlines of late night skinemax.
At the end of Bill’s journey, he never does quite cheat, despite coming dangerously close. Surely it’s fitting that only a metaphysical drifter of Tom Cruise’s caliber would ever possess such willpower, not to mention the unparalleled grace with which he displays his temperance. Then again, does Providence play a pivotal role as well?
Normally such a series of occurrences would equal a paradox of wildly oxymoronic proportions. Yet within the canon of Tom Cruise’s unforgettably groundbreaking portrayals, Bill ascends the level of being just another doctor with a stoned wife. Bill proves that a man can in fact be an adulterer without actually having committed adultery.
This is why Tom Cruise will always be…the best adulterer.
