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List Price: $24.98Amazonaws.com's Price: $13.49 You Save: $11.49 (46%)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARKER,MOLLY
Fabric Type: 0012236119630
Graphics Memory Size: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Manufacturer Labor Warranty Description: 25
Maximum Color Depth: Lions Gate
Maximum Focal Length: EnglishOriginal Language
Metal Type: Lions Gate
Pearl Type: IVED11963D
Publisher: 1
Total Firewire Ports: Lions Gate
Total Metal Weight: 1
Total Parallel Ports: December 18, 2001
Total S Video Out Ports: 88 minutes
Lions Gate
2001
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A socially inept computer geek and a prostitute develop an intense sexual relationship which becomes the center of their world.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: UN
Release Date: 21-MAY-2002
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
The titular center of the world is a matter of perspective in Wayne Wang's (The Joy Luck Club, Smoke) notorious, explicit drama of emotional isolation and sexual commerce in the modern world. According to rich, apathetic cyber-geek Peter Sarsgaard (Boys Don't Cry), it's his home computer. Amateur rock & roll drummer and part-time stripper Molly Parker (Wonderland) deems it an erotic part of the female anatomy. Their "date" is merely a sexual contract that takes them to Las Vegas, a place as phony and impersonal as their so-called romance. "You know it's just an act, right?" she reminds him between her slinky bump-and-grind striptease shows and their sweaty sexual gymnastics.
The Internet makes a great metaphor for modern social alienation, with its impersonal communication and virtual sex, but there's not much else new in this familiar story other than the erotic content. Shot on dimly lit, high-definition video, the gray, washed palette sucks the glamour and titillation right out of the spectacle, turning it into an empty, soulless exercise in physical sensation and self delusion--appropriate to this story of lonely souls unable to break through their own isolation. --Sean Axmaker
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Not what I was expecting but it was mostly enjoyable.But it was at times a little sad.
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This movie was boring. It was a waste of my money and time. I would not even recommend watching it if you could borrow it for free. STAY AWAY!
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Arguably the most thematically serious film I've seen where a stripper was a lead character, director Wayne Wang's "The Center of the World" stars Richard (Peter Sarsgaard) as a software millionaire who offers $10,000 to Florence (Molly Parker - the widow in "Deadwood"), a drummer in a struggling band who makes a living as a stripper) to spend three days with him in Las Vegas, setting the stage for a story about the collision between fantasy and reality: the fantasies upscale prostitutes sell to ... Read More
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This movie is way over priced. I wish I had just rented it from the local movie store first. But even $2.99 may have been to much. Wish I had my $25 and 2 hrs of my time back!
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In 2000, director Wayne Wang changed his pace from studio-supported movies to make a low-budget film about sex and power. "The Center of the World" was his first digital film, shot alternately on a Digi Betacam and Mini DV. Most critics didn't like it, but it is a rare film that deals with sex as frankly as this one, an unflinching exploration of the costs and consequences of sexual power. And this is a sexy film. There is a lot of sexual game-playing in it. My only complaint is that the Mini DV ... Read More
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