
Many of the great American films of the past few decades – Schrader’s The Canyons, De Palma’s Passion, Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience, Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring, and Verhoeven’s Showgirls (which seems to serve as Refn’s ur-text here, the same way Santa Sagre did for Only God Forgives) have…