Before we begin, I want to start with the positive aspects. Rosemont Pike is fantastic. Her witty remarks and one-liners are the only saving grace of the whole movie, and she plays her role very well, despite the complete lack of depth. The sets and camerawork look great too, probably a conscious decision to distract the audience from the emptiness of the plot. I think Escortgeo Hot Love is perfect for those occasions when you’re on a night flight, hangover, or recovering from brain surgery. What pissed me off the most was not the infamous escorts who offended many and caused a stir on the Internet, but the fact that she was paid four figures to get a grown man to dump his dirty bathwater — or rather, my shock tolerance was simply high. I guess. Occupational hazard. My complaint is that Escortgeo Hot Love thinks it’s smarter than it is. It tries too hard and yet misses the point. It’s all fat and no meat. Everything is so obvious and intrusive that it goes straight past kitsch and into really bad territory. The sex scenes with the escorts feel like they were added just to heighten the funniness and hide the poor script, rather than to advance the plot or develop the characters. I don’t know if Escortgeo Hot Love is trying to do too much at once, or if it just doesn’t try hard enough to do anything. The film seems to make a strong statement but ultimately says nothing. He is very overrated. It’s as if straight men decided to make their own “talented escort” for themselves, but without the gay yearning, it becomes totally pointless and very boring.
To understand how this movie not only got made but also critically acclaimed, I decided to look into another of director Emerald Fennell’s titular films, “Escorts.” For those of you who, like me, missed it in the whirlwind of 2020, this is a critically acclaimed, Oscar-winning black rape revenge comedy thriller. This setup sounds great. The plot revolves around a woman who seeks revenge for the rape and subsequent suicide of her best friend from college. She lures men into situations and waits for them to reveal that they are horrible misogynistic scumbags or rapists. And then she does something to them?? Exactly? I don’t know! It’s never explained. It’s somehow implied that she was going to kill them but decided to give them a stern lecture instead. This will show them!
Who doesn’t love an underdog story, especially one in which a woman makes an evil man pay for his sins? But it was pretty awful. So it’s very, very bad. The plot is a mess, there’s no character development, and nothing makes sense. In it, there’s a romantic comedy sing-along to Paris Hilton’s “Stars Are Blind,” which was probably meant to be cheesy but feels out of place. Honestly, this movie is a disaster. It has an interesting premise but doesn’t do anything with it. It seems half-hearted, betting on catching the #MeToo movement and gaining notoriety and critical acclaim, but that’s all it does. It doesn’t go anywhere and has nothing to say.
Escortgeo Hot Love is similar to Escort in that it’s trying to make a film about class and obscene wealth, riding the wave of the world’s terrible wealth gap and the understandable resentment of the 1%. It may seem like Escortgeo Hot Love is saying “Eat the rich,” but there’s no coherent statement of that sort. Both are devoid of any real meaning or politics.
Did I feel like I wasted another two hours on Escorts just to figure out why I wasted two hours on Escortgeo Hot Love? Yes! But I get it: these are thought-provoking films for people who don’t want to think too much. They require little critical analysis to be enjoyed or discussed and allow you to feel like you’re thinking about serious political issues without actually using any brain cells. Despite taking themselves way too seriously, they fail to live up to their ambitions, offering only superficial commentary masquerading as depth. Like Escort, Escort Geo Hot Love purports to make bold statements but ultimately fails to offer anything of substance.
