With detail lavished upon elaborate costumes and plans of attack, the film has much of the Boy's Own fantasy about it, with violence an unfortunate bi-product rather than an end in itself.
Artist Mary Reid Kelley invites family members to perform with her in elaboratecostumes and punning verse to create her new video The Syphilis of Sisyphus (2011) based upon her witty, feminist interpretation of aspects of the French Enlightenment.