I don’t get it. That’s precisely what’s in my mind after watching The Girlfriend Experience. It was made by Director Steven Soderbergh. The same guy that gave us Erin Brockovich, Solaris and Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen. He even casted porn star Sasha Grey in it.
The Girlfriend Experience takes us into the escort service world and how they try to separate their work from their personal lives. If escorts are supposed to be emotionless then Sasha Grey succeeded in that department. She was apathetic all throughout the movie. Maybe it’s the director’s view on what a girlfriend should be – detached and boring.
The dialogues in The Girlfriend Experience sounded like the actors did a lot of improvising with the script. It was like a film school project. I had no problems with its non-linear narrative method but I tried to grasp what the plot was about and I just can’t find it.
At first The Girlfriend Experience looked good. The cinematography was interesting but overall the movie sucked big time. Fans of Sasha Grey are happy when she sucks but not this time. Her character and the entire movie made no sense at all.