Review of Stripped (2001) by D M — 20 Jun 2009

A low rent type documentary that doesn?t do much but profile exotic dancers and make you want to do a psych eval on the filmmaker. It does do a nice job of capturing the different personalities that could inhabit a strip club, gentleman?s club, whatever they are called ? but I think that may have been more luck of the draw from the filmmaker.

There are a couple of nice scenes and a tragic coda to one story, but not much on either end for this. Despite a very squeamish and non-titillating sense I have for the subject when sober, I always have an interest in the personalities and I was good friends with a girl in college who had all of her friends moving to Houston to become dancers and she would always talk with me about going to try to convince herself.

I always think of these ghosts of my past as little-girl-losts and wonder if I could solve the puzzle now ? but I guess not through documentaries like this.