2009, directed by Steven Soderbergh, stars Sasha Grey. #Watch instantly – Netflix

Surprisingly I really liked this film, didn’t hit me as gimmicky at all (Big director casts popular pornstar). 

Sasha plays a high paid escort that is a committed relationship, yes her boyfriend knows her job, which we don’t know how but he accepts her doing this line of work.  Pretty much the film contrasted these two young professionals lives while they both attempt to push their careers to another limit.  It was edited well to just hinted on this dualism between their careers, but after fully watching the film I see where Soderbergh was going.  From professionalism, working the account books, gaining contacts and keeping a well documented journal of her client’s “meetings,” she shows how escorting is as much a serious business as any career.  The girlfriend experience doesn’t hit on any thoughts of role playing, instead she comes off as a hired therapist in these rich man’s lives which sometimes spend more time talking about their lives with her then actually having sex.  Because of that this film comes off as a period piece, its already dated with the amount of heavy dialogue that goes into talking about 2008 presidential election and the failing economy.

I really believe this film hits you off its emotions instead of some logic in the story.  Even though some may say the moments seem to be randomly placed, I think they were well aligned to foreshadow events in the story. The timeline doesn't hinge on any moment or event, even though she is being interviewed throughout the film, they don’t use that as a datum for moments to derive from but instead it holds the same hierarchy as most the moments in the film.  I don’t think this editing style is easy to achieve but was amazing done to create a puzzle for the viewer to piece together themselves.  I think this sort of disconnect in the storyline suits well with Sasha’s character’s personality where she lives a disconnected lives with different clients, maintaining her business and her home life with her boyfriend.