Aldous Huxley's prophetic, dystopian novel "Brave New World" was published in 1932. The film "She's Lost Control" demonstrates how perceptive Huxley was in predicting the ugly future in the area of behavioral psychology.
Ronah is the protagonist who is injecting herself with hormones and harvesting her eggs with the hope that they may come in handy in the future. This detail is a tip of the hat to Huxley's novel.
But the main focus of Ronah's work is that she is an "intimacy" helpler, working with disturbed men to help them past their barriers. This component of the film was so preposterous that one is curious exactly what the writer-director intended as a message.
The sleazy character of Dr. Alan Cassidy served as Ronah's procurer, providing her with "clients." Ronah is completing a Masters Degree in behavioral psychology, and she hopes that she can buy an upscale New York apartment where she will be able to entertain future clients. Her wise friend Irene asks for time to think it over when Ronah asks her co-sign on the apartment deal.
The main association depicted with Ronah and one of her johns was with the man appropriately named Johnny. The film's title becomes evident when Ronah's boundaries begin to collapse and she gets overly attached to her Johnny. After she is nearly beaten to a pulp by her intimacy-challenged Johnny, Ronah discovers that she is incapable of answering the most basic questions from the police, and she decides not to file a report.
As if the film were not already a conceptual and artistic mess, there literally was no ending. Instead of bringing the action to a close with a main point, the filmmakers leave the audience with the image of Ronah driving with her brother with no clue about what she has gleaned from her traumatic experience with Johnny. Such are the vicissitudes of working in the oldest profession in the world.
Ronah is the protagonist who is injecting herself with hormones and harvesting her eggs with the hope that they may come in handy in the future. This detail is a tip of the hat to Huxley's novel.
But the main focus of Ronah's work is that she is an "intimacy" helpler, working with disturbed men to help them past their barriers. This component of the film was so preposterous that one is curious exactly what the writer-director intended as a message.
The sleazy character of Dr. Alan Cassidy served as Ronah's procurer, providing her with "clients." Ronah is completing a Masters Degree in behavioral psychology, and she hopes that she can buy an upscale New York apartment where she will be able to entertain future clients. Her wise friend Irene asks for time to think it over when Ronah asks her co-sign on the apartment deal.
The main association depicted with Ronah and one of her johns was with the man appropriately named Johnny. The film's title becomes evident when Ronah's boundaries begin to collapse and she gets overly attached to her Johnny. After she is nearly beaten to a pulp by her intimacy-challenged Johnny, Ronah discovers that she is incapable of answering the most basic questions from the police, and she decides not to file a report.
As if the film were not already a conceptual and artistic mess, there literally was no ending. Instead of bringing the action to a close with a main point, the filmmakers leave the audience with the image of Ronah driving with her brother with no clue about what she has gleaned from her traumatic experience with Johnny. Such are the vicissitudes of working in the oldest profession in the world.