Quite a strange erotic film or erotic drama (so probably be more accurate). The plot is strange. In the film, we are shown a group of people who hire special people called escorts to attend a party or go to a restaurant or club (I don’t know what men are called, but women are called escorts). What's so weird about that? The strange thing is that this introduction alone makes it clear how the film will end, since it has long been known that finding love in a brothel is the most stupid, useless and painful occupation. Yes, escort and prostitution are two different things, for if prostitution always ends in sex, then escort does not imply an intimate relationship, and if it does, it is purely at the request of the person hired. I don’t use the phrase “escort girls” because there are both hired women and men in the film. So, intimate relationships are not on the menu, but are the exception. However, in the film, we are shown that everything ends with a bed, despite the fact that the film mentions several times that sex is not provided. And yet, it ends there. Yes, the film shows that not everyone will have a happy ending, but it does not change the fact that all the main characters hope for this ending of the evening. Well, what's the problem?
The problem is that it is not clear why we are shown a standard route of such a pastime throughout the film. What's the goal? The film seems to want to say (or show), the city of single people who are ready to buy a friend for the evening. Then it turns out that nothing good from this idea does not work if the “buyer” refers to such an attitude as a purchase (here I am talking about a couple who seem to have everything turned out perfectly, ie almost an ordinary first date ended in bed) or when there is a mesalliance. From my point of view, it's obvious. As I wrote above, friendship (human) as well as love (and even sympathy) millet cannot be bought with money. There may be a situation when a man hired a girl, and then the relationship turned into something more, which implies an equal relationship, and where there is no place for commodity relations. But the film doesn’t show us that, and in general, it’s not about that. The only thing you see in this movie is the idea of not being able to buy love. But it's obvious. Or not? I admit that the main and only task of the filmmakers was really easy to demonstrate this truth once again. From this point of view, the film ... ordinary, quite ordinary, not distinguished. But what about eroticism?
There is eroticism in the film and it is enough here to rank this film as erotic, but the eroticism here is quite specific. First, the director spent a disproportionate amount of time on a rather bizarre episode when one of these groups of lovers of buying a lady for the night comes to a club where we are shown a very long striptease scene. The black dancer here is strange. The point, of course, is not the color of the skin, but the fact that it is clearly dissonant with everything else that is shown in the film. Plus, there's a scene in the film with offensive racist remarks about an escort man. Okay, so the authors decided to tell us what prejudices black people in London face, but you don't have to be an escort, do you? Then why is it here? And against this background, the choice of a dancer and especially close attention to erotic and extremely frank dance (which turns into masturbation in public) looks strange and unclear. What did the author want to say?
The last thing I want to mention is the erotic component. For the sake of eroticism, this film is clearly not worth watching. It completely corresponds to the genre of the film - drama. Therefore, eroticism here is not and rather is designed to emphasize the main, not erotic, idea or ideas of the film. Secondly, those women who used the escort agency to film young men are already old. So yes, this is not a relevant issue, let’s say. The only young and attractive woman, just the one where the evening ended well for him and her. Perhaps this is where the film’s meaning is to be found, for in all the other pairs the mesalliance and/or trade relations were clearly visible.