Review of 100 Girls (2000) by Skyler B — 16 Dec 2012
Not a bad movie at all. I didn't expect much from it. Somewhere, at the back of my mind, I thought it would be one of those utterly gross-out and mindless flicks, riddled with demeaning slurs, and cheap and lurid tricks against the woman kind.
But I was pleasantly surprised by the thoughtfulness the director had invested in this movie. It's a simple story of a boy trying to find the girl he had a sexual encounter with in an elevator during a power outage.
The mystery of that girl is what drives the whole movie forward, allowing the lead character and us the viewers, to reflect on the contrasting natures of the two kind, albeit in tender and intellectual ways.
It's very uncanny for a movie of this kind to have such reverence for the opposite sex and to have its male lead pack in so much of empathy and compassion for women. It was enlightening at times but never heavy-handed.
Yes, there were bits to satisfy the naughty in you, but nothing went overboard and it was all done in good taste. All in all, a movie that you can even watch with your other half, without worrying about how she'd take the unhealthy bits most of these movies spew out, because, simply put, that's not in this movie.
It's just a sweet, sometimes meandering, but ultimately, an honest effort in telling a simple story without the usual pitfalls of gross-out humour one devises by targeting the gentler kind.
This review of 100 Girls (2000) was written by Skyler B on 16 Dec 2012.
100 Girls has generally received positive reviews.
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