This film is toxic garbage.
I’m not even gonna be nice about it.
Just once I would love to see kink in film bare any resemblance to kink in real life. The plot is a hotel mogul fires his dominatrix. It does not go well.
It hits all the tired out and egregious tropes, including:
- Kink relationships are abusive relationships
- Kink relationships are boundaryless and safewords mean nothing
- Kink is a cry for help
- Powerful women are just crazy bitches
- Women make false rape allegations out of spite
- Violence against sex workers
- Sex workers are genuinely enthralled by their johns
It’s basically Gone Girl in a hotel room. And I know a lot of people like that movie, but it took me the first half hour to realise it wasn’t meant to be funny and I wasn’t meant to be laughing, and it only seemed more ridiculous when I had to hold the laughter in, so that is not a compliment.
Christopher Abbott is in this, and he seems like a safe pair of hands you hire to get the job done, but he’s woefully miscast. The character is meant to be a shlub, and instead you have Abbott stripping down to his perfect six pack.
I resent the time I spent watching it, and resent the time spent writing even a review this short.