Stripped - Exposing the Business of Baring It All
by Jill Morley
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Actor: Beth SchakattDirector: Jill Morley
Brand: Vanguard
Cinematographer: Peter Klusman
Producer: Jill Morley
Editor: Nelson Ryland
Producer: Nelson Ryland
Producer: David Clair
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 74 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-08-27
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Vanguard Cinema
Product features:
- Billie danced to support herself as an actress. As much as she loved women who tore their clothes off in MGM Musicals, she had a love/hate relationship with topless dancing. Vicki had chin and cheek implants and two breast augmentations and felt a lot better about herself. With an MFA from NYU, she found stripping the most lucrative dance. Angela was shark like in her approach to extracting
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DVD Review: Great Documentary On Such a Pathetic Industry....
Summary: 4 Stars
I will have to say this documentary really is great. It is especially great for anyone who is enamored with going to strip clubs to seek satisfaction from giving a woman their money in exchange for seductive acceptance.
These are the profiles of desperate women who are burdened by insecurities from their past, seeking to gain self-acceptance by proving that they have what it takes to be flamboyant, thereby eliciting shock to those that they've been close to. Some of these women are older and very jaded, and it's apparent by the collective tone that they hate their career as a stripper but feel trapped and must milk it until they can no longer. It's very apparent that they are desensitized and incapable of having a satisfying, normal monogamous relationship with anyone. These dancers by and large- with the exception of Jill- are not really that likable, and it's difficult to imagine anyone giving them much in the way of their time or money. I found it very difficult to empathize with most of the characters. One woman who was interviewed with her boyfriend present recounted a time when she was dancing for her father, and she had to force herself to not touch herself in a sexual manner. The boyfriend, who seemed like a complete moron, got a cheap thrill as he actually began telling the story. Another dancer talked about how men's hands felt to her like sandpaper without money in them, and how she would advise her clients to keep her at ease by making sure that if they did touch her, that it was with the paper currency in their hands. She seemed to infer that her breast cleavage was a cash register slot.
I sort of chuckled at the overtones expressed by the interviewees in this documentary; how they aren't right for the corporate world, tried to make a living as an artist but could not, or dignify their predicament by saying that they are in school and just need the money. They blame their desperation on having been ostracized by their conservative fathers, or on having experienced rejection when they tried out as a Broadway dancer, leaving them with no esteem in either instance. The common denominator across all of the women profiled in this documentary is that they are deeply flawed in some way, and are desperate to make a quick buck at the expense of some suckers who think these women are all about them. The dancers actually ridicule their clientele, joking about the facade they present to get the most money they can. It's ironic that these women work in a profession that caters to the desires of men, yet they mock them with contempt. Of course the angle of the documentary isn't to show how these men they speak of, their customers, are classy upstanding family men, but rather to show how they are in fact exploiting these women who pretend to want them, and how these clients are perpetuating their everyday return to this godawful profession.
The best thing this documentary does is shine a bright light on a sick and delusional industry. The profession itself- a sexy woman seductively exposing her breasts to a man in exchange for money- really is not. It's more so the portrayal of these women working as strippers as normal people who have normal families and are in normal committed relationships. It's the delusion that stripping is a great career alternative to working in a corporate environment, and that the power you have while seducing a man as a dancer is far less demeaning than rejection on Broadway. It's the delusions of the women who believe that this is a great way to fix financial woes quickly. And most of all, it's the delusions of the poor sucker fishing a dollar bill through the G-string of some jaded broad who couldn't care less about him.
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