Believe it or not, the same two wrote the screenplay for Soderbergh's ' Ocean's Thirteen.' I imagine the three of them sitting around on the 'Ocean's' set and asking, 'What could we be doing instead of this?'Ĭhelsea is played by Sasha Grey. The film was written by Brian Koppelman and David Levien. Above all, they are saying: Pretend you like me. I'm worried about my job, which means nothing to me. By paying money for the excuse of sex, they don't have to say: I am lonely. In fact, sex is the beard, if you know what I mean. What draws a powerful man to pay for a women outside of marriage? It's not the sex. She simply empowers them to feel younger, more looked up to, more clever, than they are. There is no illusion that they are leaving their wives, and none that she wants them to. They have told Chelsea about their wives and children, and she remembers their names. Their amazing comments will be smiled at.

They want to feel as if they're on a date. These men don't want a girlfriend experience. Set during the run-up to the stock market crash, it shows both sides more interested in investing than sex. Each one has some reason for thinking he is somehow special. They like to give her advice about how to invest her money, and who to vote for (the story takes place during the 2008 campaign). There is the polite fiction that she is talking about other men, hypothetical men, and not the one she is with. Most of them want to talk about what she does for a living. Typically, they take her to an expensive restaurant and then a luxury hotel.

The other men are of various ages and backgrounds, but they all have one thing in common: They are wealthy, and Chelsea is not inexpensive. He doesn't seem much more meaningful to her than a client. She has been living with one of them for 18 months, and in a way, he may be a boyfriend experience. The film involves a woman named Chelsea ( Sasha Grey) and the men in her life.

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