This short documentary is about a young woman who wanted to come to New York and, when her initial plans didn't make it happen, she decided to move in with a guy she found on Craigslist and exchange sex for a place to life. When that "relationship" didn't work she started doing the same thing but on a more formal basis and soon was working as a professional escort charging $500 per hour and seeing as many as 7 clients per day. Farrah, as she calls herself, tells her about her life and work.
This film is too short to really get into the detail of Farrah's life or to explore her as a person much but I liked that it made the most of the time it had. Farrah talks quite openly but not to the point where we get tears or awful stories, it is just told honestly and as such we understand how detached she is from the life of "Farrah" the creation – indeed at one point she even differentiates between the number of men she has slept with and the number of men Farrah has slept with. She talks about the best part of the job being the money and the worst part being the actual work, before then listing all the parts of her day thus most of her life. Her delivery is matter-of-fact and it is a good tone because it adds to the sense of detachment and emptiness of her work.
The film adds to this by filming in and around very clean, empty spaces of hotel rooms which are mostly white, shots of NYC from the rooms are static and remote as opposed to the street-level "hustle/bustle" shots they could have done. The filming style and location compliments the sense of detachment and it makes the material work better by visually and thematically backing it up. The only thing I didn't care for in the style was that the longer close up shots of Farrah's long hair did occasionally make me think I was watching Cousin It from the Addams Family, but this is a minor thing.
The film is not an in-depth look at the world of escorting, but it is a rather honest tale of detachment and isolation in an empty job where the money is good if you can afford to do it. The tone of the film compliments this well, from the narration through to the locations and distant eye of the camera.
