I was over halfway through this "documentary" when I realized I was being had. God, was I relieved, too! The thought that fellow "human beings" could treat a woman this way was gut-wrenching.
I spent most of the first half of the movie just wanting to punch Adrian and Andrew in the face. It was easily the most depraved portrait of men since "In the Company of Men." Very ugly stuff, yet also insightful (as in all great black comedies). There are, after all, many men who do use similar services, and all too many of them are looking to take advantage of women in poverty or desperate circumstances.
It slowly dawned on me at the mid-point that there were just too many coincidences and contrivances for it to be real, though. Why would Adrian keep agreeing to come back into the documentary? No one was reporting all this to the cops or the INS (they had to have broken at least ten laws, including the obvious major one prohibiting slavery)? Very clever film-making. That Eugenia Yuan is absolutely adorable.
I spent most of the first half of the movie just wanting to punch Adrian and Andrew in the face. It was easily the most depraved portrait of men since "In the Company of Men." Very ugly stuff, yet also insightful (as in all great black comedies). There are, after all, many men who do use similar services, and all too many of them are looking to take advantage of women in poverty or desperate circumstances.
It slowly dawned on me at the mid-point that there were just too many coincidences and contrivances for it to be real, though. Why would Adrian keep agreeing to come back into the documentary? No one was reporting all this to the cops or the INS (they had to have broken at least ten laws, including the obvious major one prohibiting slavery)? Very clever film-making. That Eugenia Yuan is absolutely adorable.