The Life (Unrated Edition) | Daryl Hannah, Denise Richards

The Life (Unrated Edition) | Daryl Hannah, Denise Richards | It's not a movie, it's not a documental, it's in the middle, what makes it strange

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	The Life (Unrated Edition) Daryl Hannah, Denise Richards Universal Studios, 2005 average customer review:based on 26 reviews view larger image
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A graduate student (Denise Richards) in need of money is coaxed by her prostitute neighbor (Daryl Hannah) to enter the world?s oldest profession. Based on a best selling novel, their story is interwoven with stunning interviews with working prostitutes, from the highest paid call girls to the truck stop hookers. Often touching, sometimes shocking and always entertaining, this film will impact your view of the people who serve society?s most basic urges.

Unexpected

Realize that the G-rated Hannah-Richards storyline involving the friendship of an anthropology student with a prostitute is very short...maybe 20 minutes of the film. Intercut are numerous bits from a series of actual interviews of prostitutes of all types, a few madams, a dominatrix and a couple porn film performers, as well as some clients, a couple porn photographers, and a cold-eyed young Eastern European sex-slaver. The link between the two disparate elements of the film appears to be Richards' character's ongoing interviews for a book on prositution she's doing and, under Hannah's tutelage, a first-hand foray into prostitution when her grant money runs out. As far as I can tell after one viewing, no effort is made to explain why the interviews are done, for the most part, in subtitled Spanish, obviously shot in Europe. Without knowing the background, it appears to me the producers tried to market what would have been a routine documentary with a fictional storyline and some star appeal, whether or not it was taken from a book. If true, it is an interesting marketing ploy. The storyline is disappointing, the interviews good, and the whole treatment was unexpected.

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It's not a movie, it's not a documental, it's in the middle, what makes it strange

Honestly I would give it about three and a half stars. I got the movie thinking about a drama, the plot according to what I had seen sounded interesting. Well, I was waiting for a drama movie, mostly fiction, and it is about two thirds documentary and a third of drama, and usually it has to be a really great person who puts two so different things on a same movie and it ends up being great... and this is not the case.

For the documentary part: Realistic interviews, variety of topic, very shallow on each topic though. Superficially informative.

As for the drama attempt: The idea of the plot is interesting, the execution of it is poor, but well, complex plots are not easy to get in 30 minutes, that is actually more of what this director gives to the plot itself. Besides, the dramatic scenes are pathetically SLOW.

Great soundtrack. I would like to have those songs, but most of them I had never heard them before, and I don't know the names or so, and Amazon doesn't have it either.

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