Show Girls

I have to admit that I have not seen this film all the way through and I will not ever be watching this film all the way through as I can't handle watching domestic abuse and rape, so spoiler alert for anyone who didn't know the plot but that is what happens at the end and I think that it really ruins the film. I read ahead whilst searching for an answer to another question and I am glad that I did because I can write honestly about the things that I have see and do not have to write horrible comments about that which I did not want to see.

The dancing is a bit hit and miss. The comments that they make throughout the film about her using the assets more than natural dancing skill is entirely true. I'm all for dancing naked if you are actually dancing and not just kinda having sex on stage. I was sort of expecting this to be a little like flashdance after it had started and in no way was it but it would have done better trying to emulate certain parts of Flashdance instead of being different.

If you google this and check out the Wikipedia page you will discover that it was a massive 'flop', meaning that it made a lot less that it started with and it also received a NC-17 rating in certain states of America for its sexual violence, erotic sexual acts and general nudity. Some people would consider some of those reasons to be an excuse to watch the film but others would not, each to their own.

I've spoken about the dancing so now i'll move on to the costume. Costumes were great but there wasn't much there. I'm all for working with what you have got but even if it is a strip dance you can work with more than just that. I guess that I wanted to see something that would really make it a show, that would make it different from the strip tease going on at the club down the road.

I sort of liked what I saw (not in a sexual way) and at the same time it was too much. There is such a thing as too much nudity. What this film captures is the working way of showbiz, how far you have to go to get to the top, how far people will go to stop you and the prices that everyone pays to keep the shows going, even if it means covering up horrendous crimes. In many ways this film is similar to a poem by Anna Akhmatova who claims that Stalin just climbed on everyone else to get to the top and that is what this film is saying- push them down the stairs if you have to in order to get your golden shot. How far would you go to make your dreams reality?