Laura Bramon Good on "The Girlfriend Experience"

I've been following Laura Bramon Good's writing since she spent some time at SPU as the year's Milton Fellow, leading the Milton Center writers' group. She's an excellent writer with a big heart, and I love her contributions to the Good Letters blog at Image.

This week, she's written on the new Soderbergh film, The Girlfriend Experience. Here's an excerpt:

“I don’t understand,” he said, “why you like it so much.”

We walked silently down the brightly carpeted hallway of the theater. I waited for him to say something more. I started prattling about beauty and truth; I may have quoted Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” I could not stop myself.

“The last scene,” I said, “I love it. It completely dramatizes the link between pornography and prostitution.”

“It’s about a lonely guy who wants to have sex.”

“But they don’t actually have sex.”

“But he pays her to do what he wants her to do.”

By the time we made it to the sidewalk, we were pitching for a quarrel.