Geez, what a dark picture! I mean, this film tries to be as ugly as humanly possible. We are either seeing sweaty old men trying to dispose of dead hookers or we are seeing a 15 year old girl sell herself to hideous looking bums. The seedy dump where it all takes place looks and feels like a septic tank. Just watching what transpires here makes you want to take a long hot shower. I suppose I was semi-interested in the movie and that is sad. Because there was nothing redeeming in it. Just a base tale for people with morbid curiosities. I am not sure if that is art or just pathetic. Moreover, I do have some problems with some of the technical aspects. I mean you have these two guys screaming at each other on how to get rid of this dead body in this dive. They are worried that people will find them out, yet they are screaming in a dive with obvious paper thin walls. I also have a problem with our young white hooker, who seems to be soiling herself, not just because she is selling her body, but because she loses her virginity to a very dark black man and then a hispanic. It seems somewhat racist in that regard. As if selling herself to an attractive, young white man would not have been as bad? No, this film just wants to be ugly. There are no promises or hope for redemption. There is no brighter future, just an abyss.
Review of Night at the Golden Eagle
