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Summary: Wast time & money
Review: This movie is about a doc.com man has too much easy money to give away. Not much erotic stuff at all.
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Summary: Stick with soap operas
Review: This movie is not erotic, it is frustrating. There are few sex scenes. I think the soap operas are more erotic than this movie.
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Summary: Hidden gem!
Review: This movie was totally not what I was expecting but I just loved it. It examines the meaning of relationship (at least that's how I understood it) and does it with such delicacy and subtlety that it's very rare in american movies (it rather characteristic for french movies). The movie is very erotic and sensual even without (or almost without) nudity. The acting by Peter Sargaard and Molly Parker was superb. Highly recommended to all fans of european cinema that can accept a movie without much outside action.
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Summary: Weird Sexual Film Leaves One Dry
Review: This was a weird movie. Wayne Wang is one of the most famous directors of "no budget films" (films that shoot on 16mm and video with no connection to Hollywood) and popularized by Rick Schmidt. On that recommendation, I went to see this movie.The plot centers around a rich tech-geek who hires a stripper to go with him to Las Vegas. During the trip, sex mixes with (maybe) love and eventually all hell breaks lose with each side realizing what they really are. There are plenty of reasons to view this movie. The characters are very complex, with truly subtle perfomances given by all involved. The story also is engaging with enough twists to keep one puzzled. This is a sexual film that is the complete opposite of "Showgirls." It is a view of the sex industry with both it's appeal and its horrible toll of the minds of its partisipants. You will real want to discuss this film. So far, it sounds like a five star movie, but it isn't. The lowbudgetness of the movie makes the sex scenes look like porn, which actually draws the audiance out of the emotions Wang is looking for. It also is a movie that becomes increasingly vulgar to melodramatic effect, so as to almost parody itself at times. It appears that there were two sides to Director Wayne Wang on this piece. Director Wayne made a profound study of the sex industry. Director WANG made a cheap vulgar porno. It's too bad that they're the same movie.
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Summary: Weird Sexual Film Leaves One Dry
Review: This was a weird movie. Wayne Wang is one of the most famous directors of "no budget films" (films that shoot on 16mm and video with no connection to Hollywood) and popularized by Rick Schmidt. On that recommendation, I went to see this movie. The plot centers around a rich tech-geek who hires a stripper to go with him to Las Vegas. During the trip, sex mixes with (maybe) love and eventually all hell breaks lose with each side realizing what they really are. There are plenty of reasons to view this movie. The characters are very complex, with truly subtle perfomances given by all involved. The story also is engaging with enough twists to keep one puzzled. This is a sexual film that is the complete opposite of "Showgirls." It is a view of the sex industry with both it's appeal and its horrible toll of the minds of its partisipants. You will real want to discuss this film. So far, it sounds like a five star movie, but it isn't. The lowbudgetness of the movie makes the sex scenes look like porn, which actually draws the audiance out of the emotions Wang is looking for. It also is a movie that becomes increasingly vulgar to melodramatic effect, so as to almost parody itself at times. It appears that there were two sides to Director Wayne Wang on this piece. Director Wayne made a profound study of the sex industry. Director WANG made a cheap vulgar porno. It's too bad that they're the same movie.
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Summary: Porn? Sex? Entertainment? Where??
Review: This was so boring my fiancee fell asleep and I envied him. The acting wasn't even 2nd rate, the texture, feel and color of the entire movie was incredibly bland, & I couldn't at all buy any realisim in this flick at all.
Save your time, skip over to the next video tape you see. Barney the purple dinosaur has more punch than this movie.
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Summary: What a wonderful WORLD...
Review: Though not as wild as it's teaser trailer, Center of the World proves to be one of the most highly erotic, poignant, interesting character studies that I've seen in a long time. The acting is very well done, especially because of the challenge Skasgaard and Parker took on, portraying REAL LIFE people, as opposed to storybook cut outs. This gritty flick, which isn't so much about computer nerds as it's made out to be, is just another example of why indie flicks are more often than not, better than mainsream cinema.
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Summary: Reality check.
Review: Touted as the modern "Last Tango in Paris", a movie I neither understood nor enjoyed, this unrated film still caught my eye. I was intrigued enough by the plot synopsis of "Center of the World" - computer geek hires stripper for a $10k paid trip to Vegas. The strip related scenes were tasteful and focused on the psychology more than the detailed physiology. The stripper was very real, no Pam Anderson look alike. These two elements made the entire film more inviting to me. A film that provoked some thought and discussion. Money and sex -- when the power changes hands? What is the gender difference between love and sex? When does a man think of a woman's pleasure? Sexual deviance, over sexed desensitization, when does a man say "no"? What will become of the guy who watches 3 computer screens at work - work, stocks, and ..., and yet has no time to have a normal social life? This film also dares to show the most real woman's ... -- about time! Films truly do give us impressions about what sex is supposed to be like, and hello - most films are directed by men - so how often do we actually see a realistic female ... and not some male interpretive fantasy?
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Summary: Reality check.
Review: Touted as the modern "Last Tango in Paris", a movie I neither understood nor enjoyed, this unrated film still caught my eye. I was intrigued enough by the plot synopsis of "Center of the World" - computer geek hires stripper for a $10k paid trip to Vegas. The strip related scenes were tasteful and focused on the psychology more than the detailed physiology. The stripper was very real, no Pam Anderson look alike. These two elements made the entire film more inviting to me. A film that provoked some thought and discussion. Money and sex -- when the power changes hands? What is the gender difference between love and sex? When does a man think of a woman's pleasure? Sexual deviance, over sexed desensitization, when does a man say "no"? What will become of the guy who watches 3 computer screens at work - work, stocks, and ..., and yet has no time to have a normal social life? This film also dares to show the most real woman's ... -- about time! Films truly do give us impressions about what sex is supposed to be like, and hello - most films are directed by men - so how often do we actually see a realistic female ... and not some male interpretive fantasy?
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Summary: Gritty, funny and absorbing
Review: Wayne Wang and Paul Auster have partnered before on stories that make their way into edgy movies (Smoke), but Center of the World introduces a gritty kind of humor and mindplay that makes for an absorbing 90 minutes. It's also a skin flick, but it's a interesting skin flick.
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