Women have a laundry list
of things that we do to protect ourselves — we find a security guard to escort us, we carry mace, we cinch our keys between our fingers to make any
punch hurt more, we take routes that have more lights, we have our cell phones out with 911
typed in and our finger on the «send» key, etc..
Pervy, belligerent, self - loathing, substance - dependent, greedy, oily, spiteful, pathetic — he is an omnibus
of Hoffman
types and tropes, from the deliciously snitchy George Willis, Jr., in Scent
of a
Woman to the pitiable Scotty J. in Boogie Nights to the sweaty Allen in Happiness to the unscrupulous, loudmouthed Dean Trumbell in
Punch - Drunk Love.