It is for people like me who enjoy living a very un-stoic life (at least vicariously through movies) by having radical ideas and perspectives forced upon them.
Therefore, people bound by a constricting sense of morality should never have watched this movie in the first place.
I'll admit it takes a very `unchristian' viewpoint to laugh at the `straight economics' of allowing policemen to gang-f**k a girl for $30 a head. What we have here is a movie riddled with black humor and a horrifying satire of the American dream.
The bombardment of the bright, flashing lights of Las Vegas and the bizarre camera angles, as well as surreal sets make for an interesting and entertaining presentation regardless of a lack of coherency and taste. The sets are so elaborate, one could never take in all the scenery from any number of viewings without slowing it down and watching very closely. First of all, this movie literally glows with Gilliam's eye for detail that he has consistently displayed throughout his career. Thompson's generation-defining book of the same name - it stays very faithful to the events in the book. It is a brilliant adaptation of Hunter S. Maybe my mind works very much like director Terry Gilliam's (I loved 'Brazil' and '12 Monkeys'), but the last thing I would do to this movie is deride it. I have read countless reviews of this movie that have derided it for everything from glorifying drugs to being unchristian to being boring.