 How does Barker view his own film?
The movie tracks four aging New Yorkers--two men, two women--through their lonely dating rituals, in the process depicting a universe of lusty, coupled-up haves and downcast, excluded have-nots, all viewed Rear Window -style through rectangular openings in the massive apartment houses in which they reside. The director selected his four subjects from many hundreds of potential candidates, followed them around for months, and then scripted their monologues and dialogues to reflect what he says he saw. Calling his own film "an exercise in mendacity," Barker goes on, "I'm quite happy to tell lies about my characters and even collude with their self-delusions if it enables me to communicate larger dramatic truths."
 He feels justified in bending the truth about his characters in order to depict a more important point to his audience
 He considers the film to be an original, unprecedented view of the human psyche  He realizes that his characters likely don't represent the average single person  He feels justified in bending the truth about his characters in order to depict a more important point to his audience  He knows that the rejection of his film by US distributors is part of the larger hypocrisy he is trying to reveal