ross-bob I watched this film three times yesterday. The first time for the sex, but the next two times increasingly aware that these sex workers were not actors (except for Mss. Hannah and Richards). Having to sit close to the TV screen to read the translation sub-titles was annoying, but what they were saying was must-read material. Wow. They don't mince any words. A sense of danger permeates all interviews, even the guys who try to pretend it's all in good fun. The strongest point of the film for me was the number of countries in Europe in which the action takes place. So many! And the girls who were sex-trafficked from Eastern Europe were the scariest witnesses. The deep connection between drug addiction and sex-working mirrored exactly the law-enforcement problems we're having here in Maryland, where the sex-trafficking trade is breaking out into the open. I loved this film, and not just for the sex. $6,000.000.00 well spent to inform us that prostitution has got to be legalized and regulated in the USA.

dromasca The producers of this film seem not to have decided what they really wanted to do - a documentary? some social comment about prostitution? a drama about how a young student is almost driven into prostitution? a soft porn movie? The result is a mix of all those, without really being any of them. Denise Richards and Daryl Hannah seem very little at ease with their very thin acts inter-threaded with what seem to be interviews with real practicants of the older profession and porn actors and directors. The social comment is not consequent, sometimes forgiving, sometimes harsh, and in any case it does not say anything new about the subject that was or is said in any TV documentary. It is hard to say why they did this film, and who would be really interested in it.

sublimetc The movie was brilliant. It opened your eyes to a side of prostitution you never seen before. These are just regular people who come from a different background, different life style and different beliefs. The girl that really got to me was the one who was forced into prostitution by having her families lives threatened. These people view prostitution different than the rest of us. That doesn't necessarily make them wrong, make them sinners, it just makes them different, like everyone else. In fact, this movie intrigued me so much I am trying to find the book the movie was supposedly based on but am having trouble doing it. Apparently this book is no where to be found. If anyone has anyways of finding this book would you please email me and let me know how to purchase it. Thankx.

shav Many of the previous comments were close-minded. I haven't seen this film in several months, but it's ingrained in my mind. "The Life" was not about supporting prostitution, but more about the reasons/situations that lead to and exist, in such a "profession" world-wide. The element of documentary and fiction was a different take on the subject. If the fictional part of the story was just as candid and raw as the documentary portion, then the film would've been better. The subtitles were somewhat distracting due to speed. But overall, the film accomplished it's task. The theme holds, "Prostitution shouldn't be glorified, but accepted as reality. Knowing reality illuminates the real world."-shav