Finding yourself isn't the prettiest thing always, but the fact that you are desirous of this venture and brave enough to embark on it is in and of itself worth the endeavor. One of the more insightful and unsettling aspects of the human condition as portrayed by Maugham in this film is that of showing how willfully allowing a thing to occur is as good as not preventing it from occurring, i.e., causing good or evil in the most passive-aggressive way.
BTW, I didn't know this was Bill Murray's debut movie; he doesn't seem to have changed too much in the last quarter century!
