Movie Review
"The Girlfriend Experience"
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
You must first know that "The Girlfriend Experience" is a dated piece that is lined with the conversational cliches of the last quarter of 2008. Every single thing that was said on television during that time was said in this movie, and it is an obvious attempt to seal this era within a movie so that future generations can call it noteworthy history. For looking to push this particular point of the movie-to remind us of the election and our financial struggles, and to lock them in time-this movie is a pure travesty of bumbling dialogue and sentences we could all finish for the actors.
But the movie with its forgotten concepts and its bold lack of a real ending is simply an alright movie. I do not advise you to pay to see this movie. You should, however wait until this movie airs on one of the additional Cinemax channels in ten months, call up someone of the opposite sex that you enjoy conversation and sex with, one of you might want to bring a bottle champagne, and you'll have a decent laugh when it's over. You'll think that for a porn star, Sasha Grey does a great job as the self-employed escort who offers a more personal type of nightly companionship. You'll think that Steven Soderbergh's direction is above average, capturing a well known porn star in ways that make her look sexier with clothes on than off. If you are the type who simply wants to enjoy this movie and not dissect it, then you will be in love with the concept of the movie throughout: Grey's character, Chelsea, has a boyfriend who accepts and supports her profession and ever-expanding workload, she falls lovesick for a client, she is in many trying situations. There is too much to talk about in this movie if can overlook the low points in movies that suck a little and are lined with everything we've already heard in our daily lives for eight months. The rest is a huge bowl of sexy "what-ifs" and "how-do-theys" that confuse, annoy, stimulate and intrigue the simpler viewer who might have miraculously grown an open mind. Please remember though, that minds are much more open to movies we see on cable. The security of our ability to change the channel gives us an empowerment that most of us do not really understand.
So if you can really watch a movie in which the cliche-dial is turned on Tyler Perry, but you're trying to watch movies in theaters where people don't shoot at the screen, and you want to see something sexy, give "The Girlfriend Experience" a try, but don't blame me...
