{"id":20833,"date":"2012-02-13T13:28:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T21:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=20833"},"modified":"2012-02-13T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T21:37:23","slug":"whores-glory-michael-glawogger-2011-germany-austria-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=20833","title":{"rendered":"Whores&#8217; Glory (Michael Glawogger, 2011): Germany, Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Truman Kewley. Viewed at Santa Barbara International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.critic.de\/fileadmin\/Images\/Whores_Glory__1_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The film Whores Glory is an inside look at the underground\u00a0profession of prostitution. \u00a0This documentory was very interesting to watch and to really try and get inside the heads of these women and why they chose to do what they do. \u00a0This film really brings awareness to the world about the sex trade and how many women are forced into it and how many choose to sell there body. \u00a0While watching this film I was very interested with everything these women had to say and how they\u00a0discussed\u00a0there customers with the camera and\u00a0each other.<\/p>\n<p>I viewed this film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival at the Lobero Theater. \u00a0The directory of the film,\u00a0Michael Glawogger, did a great job at capturing good shots and getting inside the lives of these women. \u00a0There were many greatly placed shots and interesting insider information threw out the film. \u00a0Michael Glawogger has an amazing talent at getting his subjects\u00a0comfortable\u00a0and to open up on camera. \u00a0One thing I do with was that he focused more on how they got into the\u00a0profession\u00a0rather than how they are trying to get out.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0documentary\u00a0Raw Material follows the lives of prostitutes across the world. \u00a0The film begins fallowing the lives of whores in\u00a0Bangkok. \u00a0The women in Bangkok seemed to do what they do for the main reason of money. \u00a0They wanted more customers for money to go out and party on there days off. \u00a0I felt like there reason for prostitution was not out of need but more out of lust for quick money and\u00a0laziness. \u00a0The film then begins to fallow women in India. \u00a0The women in India seemed to either be forced into prostitution or have no other means to survive. \u00a0The women in India did not seem to enjoy it as much as the women in Bangkok and seemed much more depressed. \u00a0The film also\u00a0fallowed\u00a0whores in Mexico. \u00a0The women in Mexico seemed to enjoy there jobs the most. \u00a0One of the woman was saying how see loved doing what she was doing because she was getting payed to do what she loved. \u00a0These women were the scariest in my\u00a0opinion because they had no problem with what they were doing and doing it in not safe\u00a0environments.<\/p>\n<p>The music in Whores Glory help create\u00a0tension\u00a0and help remind the view what part of the world we were watching. \u00a0The open interviews of these women was shocking and incredible to witness. \u00a0Getting into the heads of these woman is unlike any film I had ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>I would\u00a0recommend\u00a0everyone to watch the\u00a0documentary\u00a0film Whores Glory. \u00a0Whether\u00a0your a man or a woman this film is very interesting and a great look into the lives of a\u00a0profession\u00a0usually\u00a0kept\u00a0in the dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Truman Kewley. Viewed at Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The film Whores Glory is an inside look at the underground\u00a0profession of prostitution. \u00a0This documentory was very interesting to watch and to really try and get inside the heads of these women and why they chose to do what they do. \u00a0This film really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}