By Dan Hagen
“Magic Mike” turns out to be a surprisingly good movie, more
drama than titillation.
Channing Tatum stars as a stripper in Tampa, a life he
actually lived. The film’s themes include the aspirations of lower-class youth,
the moral undertow of easy money and the ironic and sad contrasts between
normal life and fetishized sexual objectification.
A credible look into an under-the-radar demimonde |
The most surprising thing about the film is its
verisimilitude. This is the way life is lived, not merely for strippers but for
higher-end waiters, porn performers, models — those under-the-radar people who
have fast daily cash, youth, looks, drugs, easy access to everything you might
want except, perhaps, a way up and out and onto solid ground.
These are demimonde worlds that are attractive to youth for
a variety of reasons that ring true at the time, and they are seductive
whirlpools that, like youth, must finally be left behind, transcended.
Channing Tatum plays big brother to Alex Pettyfer in "Magic Mike" |
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