The Center of the World

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Summary: Behind the Curtain without pulling it open
Review: Well I went to see "Center of the World" and I was quite impress.  Mostly to the director's ability to allow the audience to know what is behind the "curtain" without pulling it open.   The movie is two hours of a stripper and a client in Las Vegas.  Three nights of pleasure and fun without commitment but a few rules set by the woman.  Two rules that enable her to maintain distance without emotional attachment.   The man is simply a business man who is down in his life, can't find the motivation to be ambitious.  His friends thinks that he needs to be ... to fix the problem.   Both characters have issues in their lives, yet you never really know what they are.  You can see yourself playing either role, and understand alittle about human nature: sometimes we use ... as a cover-up and a way to avoid the real problems or emotions.   Throughout the movie you notice that the two characters are geniunely falling for each other: the solution; create further distance between the two, what else.   By the end of the movie we see the two characters ... in the past few days.  The man states, as he is lying under his desk, "we all claim a space in this life..."   I was quite impressed with the movie.  I could relate very well, I think we all can, with the characters motives and situations

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Summary: The penetration of bought company...
Review: Where is the center of the world? This is a rhetorical question as it is often perceived to be in the mind of the individual with the notion. In this film the center of the world surrounds the interpersonal relationship between a man, Richard (Peter Sarsgaard) and a woman, Florence (Molly Parker). This relationship has a monetary foundation as Richard has rented Florence for a three day trip to Las Vegas. Richard has developed a depression that is consuming his life as he is on the brink of making a big business deal, but his world is now obsessed with Florence and the erotic favors that she is performing for him. The notion "where is the center of the world" is apparent as the story unfolds, however, it is Florence's callousness and Richard's passion that spins the story as it brings the audience a decadent cinematic experience that is worth watching.

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Summary: The penetration of bought company...
Review: Where is the center of the world? This is a rhetorical question as it is often perceived to be in the mind of the individual with the notion. In this film the center of the world surrounds the interpersonal relationship between a man, Richard (Peter Sarsgaard) and a woman, Florence (Molly Parker). This relationship has a monetary foundation as Richard has rented Florence for a three day trip to Las Vegas. Richard has developed a depression that is consuming his life as he is on the brink of making a big business deal, but his world is now obsessed with Florence and the erotic favors that she is performing for him. The notion "where is the center of the world" is apparent as the story unfolds, however, it is Florence's callousness and Richard's passion that spins the story as it brings the audience a decadent cinematic experience that is worth watching.

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Summary: the center of our world
Review: while certainly not as powerful or touching as mr.wang's joy luck club, this film is indeed quite good. mr. wang seems to have departed from those heartwarming mother and daughter stories such as joy luck club or his previous film anywhere but here to present us his statement on sexuality and/or love in it's rawest form. molly parker, who is known for taking the more challenging roles, once again delivers an almost natural performance to the screen in this erotically charged study of human desire and need. center of the world is a very modern story about loneliness, obsession, and self-fulfillment which lurks within us all. although one could easily argue the film might've borrowed elements of leaving las vegas or even pretty woman, mr.wang's world explores the possibilites of how we react in the real world with one another versus electronical communication. in fact, i believe he is simply showing us how digital, often impersonal, or cold everything has become in the modern computer age. we have virtually no attachment to anything as far as interracting via computer. we as humans have basically become slaves to technology in way or another. what is the center of your world?