Christine just seems boring to me. She says she gets a kick out of what she does, but I don't see it. I guess the kick is the big bucks she gets for using men.
shareFor me...just a different world...and different that anything I have watched recently...adult fare...which is difficult to find without being porn..which I dislike.
shareI think what we're meant to see is how her work as an escort changes and how it changes her. Initially we see a girl who made her family proud as she studied hard and was working hard to become a lawyer but was not adverse to making great money on the side as an escort for kind, sophisticated men who enjoyed her company and treated her great. With each of them she is smiling, sweet, charming and sympathetic. It seems as though they don't care that they're paying her to act like their girlfriend. They could afford it and they enjoyed the time they spent with her, which was for more than just sex. She seemed to enjoy these interactions as much as she enjoyed the money.
Jack was the client who couldn't understand that she was not really his girlfriend. Everything changed after that. The clients in the later episodes are far different from the earlier ones. Probably because she went from getting referrals from the nicer clients she first had to sifting through all the guys who replied to her website. We see her reading some crude comments on her website as well as getting a crank call from one of them. The clients we see from that point on include a cocaine addict and a couple guys with significant emotional issues. Her earlier clients were interested in her as they would be in a girlfriend. But the cocaine addict asks her to tell him about herself only to cut her off as soon as she starts. He asks her if she wants a drink but when she says she does, he gets one only for himself. But she doesn't seem to mind. It's her job now and as long as they pay her she doesn't care how they act.
Her law career is over. She's alienated from her family. We no longer see her on yachts or in fine restaurants with her clients. The only interactions we now see between her and her clients is sex. We no longer see her smiling and being charming with them. We only see her expressionless face as she goes through the motions of having joyless sex for money. And I think it was significant that she met a more experienced escort who told her the work was easy and lucrative but that she just didn't want to do it anymore. So we have to wonder if Christine has thrown away a promising law career and ruined her relationship with her family for a career as an escort that might ultimately become too unfulfilling to want to continue.
This sounds pretty bad. Call girls escorts is a modern misnomer (as escorts are men hired by prominent single women to accompany them to proper social events that no lady attends alone) have ALWAYS been hired for their social and conversational skills, with sex coming in second. The same was/is true of Geishas. The tricks (known as “John’s” to squares who know nothing of The Life) care NOTHING about paying rich fees for the service—and their wives would PREFER their husbands have this kind of clear business arrangement instead of seeing other women who might try to steal them from their spouses. A real Working Girl screens her tricks, and would drop a trick who thought he was in a romantic relationship with her.
And the word is “averse,” which means “not receptive to.” “Adverse” means “a difficulty.” Verbal skills are very highly prized in The Life.