This book forces us to confront the uncomfortable,
often ugly realities of human nature, but Bloom uses a conversational style and deeply personal examples to make it more palatable.
In Drive, Only God Forgives, and The Neon Demon, his exacting, tightly realized compositions are
often so exhaustingly detailed on the surface as to suggest the shallowness and
ugly realities of his subjects in the imagery alone — the underworld, the fashion world, the drug trade, and other such dubious enterprises.