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The Girlfriend Experience
$26.98
Steven Soderbergh is an experimental director who's not afraid to take chances. He's directed mainstream movies and then he's dappled in the more obscure, independent cinema. The Girlfriend Experience is a film that falls into the latter category that is (oddly enough) written by David Levien and Brian Koppelman who together penned the script for another Soderbergh film...Ocean's Thirteen (Widescreen Edition). Strange, right? Most of Soderbergh's independent efforts fly under the radar, but this one got a little more attention than usual because of his decision to cast the young, controversial adult-film star Sasha Grey in the lead role.

Grey plays a high-class escort who gives her clients "the girlfriend experience," which is the one thing separating her from a hooker. Sometimes, with her clients, sex will not even be involved and instead she will simply go to dinner with them and listen to them talk...And get paid quite a bit for it. Later, she'll recount exactly what occurred with the client. Nothing about the plot of this film is linear and Grey isn't the only character in the film, but identifying the role others play in the overall scheme of the movie is nearly impossible.

The film basically begins with characters having endless conversations about how bad the economy is and when these conversations do eventually cease, people talk to Grey about her job and what it requires of her. Like the talk about the economy, this is equally uninteresting and uninformative. A few people have actually applauded this film for it's statement about the economy or it's study of Grey's character, but make no mistake about it...This is not a character study nor an inside look into the world of high-paid escorts. It comes off like the script was written by two people who had heard of escorts but didn't know much about them and tried to strain the limit of their knowledge about the subject.
I really didn't get the feeling that this was a social commentary either, no matter how much it tried to seem to be. Any social statement Soderbergh and/or the writers were trying to make is lost anyway and the film seems dated mere months after its release.

Now, people have complained about Sasha Grey's performance. I can neither praise nor criticize her performance as this role does not require much talent or acting ability. She is not given a character with emotional depth and, as such, is not required to convey much emotion. Truthfully, more of her emotions are probably on display in her other "films." She says her dialogue convincingly and that's really all her character is given is (meaningless) dialogue. In that sense, she's not bad...Soderbergh clearly saw something in her because it's clear she wasn't cast because of her previous "performances." While Grey does have some brief nudity in the 79-minute film and a very brief nude scene after the credits, you can see more of Grey by typing in her name on google without the safe search on.

I honestly expected to like The Girlfriend Experience. I read all the poor reviews of it and heard how "boring" it is and I typically find something admirable about it. Just because a film is boring doesn't mean it's NOT a good film...The Girlfriend Experience isn't incredibly boring, but it's NOT a good film. This film evoked no emotional response from me and is so bland and dull; it doesn't even inspire enough energy to express hatred for it. I mean, it's a film with hollow, empty characters and strange, inexplicably amateurish cinematography. It doesn't succeed as a parable of today's economic crisis and it certainly doesn't succeed as entertainment. It's a film so absent of admirable qualities, it's a wonder that Soderbergh didn't have his name removed from the credits.

I won't flat-out say "I hate this movie" for one reason...The Girlfriend Experience is one of those rare movies that fails on so many levels, you won't even express any severe distaste for it simply because you'll have completely forgotten you've watched it a few hours later.

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