Loverboy

This film is about an issue which is quite often in press here in Holland: Maroccan Loverboys (hence the title) gets nice blond dutch chick to be a prostitute. She does not mind and things go from bad till worse... And then she finds out, but it's not... The movie gets better through time... Nice waist of time though.

This film is about loverboys, men who seduce young girls/women and force them in to prostitution. They're not very friendly people, usually using violence so that their victim is too afraid to do anything about their situation. So what do you do when you make a movie about loverboys? You make the loverboy a nice guy, someone who falls in love with his victim, awww isn't that romantic? Yes it is and that's the whole problem about this movie. It totally underrates the problem. Never is there a real threat, Denise the victim never seems to be stuck in her situation, she isn't forced to become a prostitute, she isn't forced to stay one. At the end she finds out that the loverboy has other girlfriends and then she just quits with the guy. Just like that.

One can argue that it wasn't the intention of the makers to make a film about the real problem, the actor portraying the loverboy did acknowledge that in real life the loverboy situation is far more violent. However since this film is about the only one about loverboys it's regarded as a good source and a good representation about it. And that's the real disturbing part since the film more or less promotes the good side of loverboys more than emphasize the negatives. At least the previous commenter also knows better.

In the Dutch show 'Cut (2003)' there was an episode about loverboys as well, but handled so much better. Especially since it didn't have a happy ending, and the girl that was the victim disappeared just like many do in real life.

This movie was made for television but could have made for cinema if they had rewrote the script. Nasty loverboy Michael gives a 17-year old girl presents so she falls in love with him. But he also begins to like her, even he sells her to men for money.

The splitscreentric do work for me, but the MTV-videoclips doesn't. I rather saw a decent ending.

Pitty, could have been better. 6/10

First of all, I think the movie isn't believable and for a science fiction that is oke, but for a drama it isn't. That is because of a couple of points, the actors haven't really done a great job, many times I was confused with expression they were giving.

Second, I think it's selling being a prostitute and I wouldn't advise any parent to let their child see this movie. There were many moments through the movie that I thought, well being a prostitute isn't so bad. The movie almost only shows good sides to being a prostitute and everything bad that happens, the female just doesn't really care, or get's over it within a minute and everything is happy again.

I think that the main issue, in the background, of this movie is that young girls are being taught by videoclips on MTV to love the external, material aspects of life, which makes them vulnerable to loverboys (pimps who recruit young girls).

This movie is about the process of a young girl, Denise, becoming a prostitute. She is seduced by a good looking, succesful and rich guy, Micheal. Step by step Micheal changes her from a sweet, innocent girl, into a prostitute. The movie shows in great detail how Micheal plays a psychological game with her.

The second storyline of this movie is that Micheal falls in love with her, which was, of course, not planned, because he is a pimp. You see Micheal's internal struggle with this. He tries to get her to be a prostitute, but sometimes he tries to protect her from it.

Denise is ruining her life, quitting school, running away from home, losing her friends.

The viewer is omniscient, you see both Denise's conversations with her family and school-friends, as Micheal's conversations with his co-pimps.