The Pickup Game

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Steph T @RT95420025 06/05/2025 I have to say I find the review on here describing this doc as a film "about the female experience starring, written and directed by men" to be a strange miscategorization. The focus of the film is *actually* about the male experience of dating and the frustrations and challenges from that perspective. If anything, it deliberately steers away from the female perspective. The women in the doc - the target of the pickup instructors - are not the subject of the film. It is actually the frustrated men who fall under the spell of those instructors that this doc is about. It is precisely those frustrations that leave men open and susceptible to guru like figures who speak to that inner anger and play on it. If anything, with the recent rise of high profile online personalities that draw huge crowds of adoring followers the film provides a good insight into how and why that happens. See more Mary S @RT43007480 11/01/2024 A film about female experience written, directed and starring men. Out of date when it was released and without any new insight, it would be more useful to an aspiring pick up artist than a woman learning about them. See more Roy T @Lean6 12/31/2020 Sleazy, but it's almost a must-see for men. With a greater than 50 percent divorce rate, every man needs to see just what a horrible risk it is to walk down the aisle in marriage. According to this compelling documentary, women are really stupid, just waiting from some skilled communicator to come along on any given day to get them into bed. See more 07/24/2020 I'm no film critic but I honestly believe 20 years from now when this documentary has become the cult hit I'm sure it will be people are going to look at this movie and realize that it does something almost entirely unique in documentaries today - it leaves space for the viewer to make their own mind up. I watched it (twice) with two different groups of friends and on both occasions each person had a different interpretation of what they had seen. Almost like when you're looking at clouds in the sky and making shapes out of them. Everybody sees something different. Likewise everyone's reaction to this film was different. Sure, this film contains the usual devices to help create atmosphere and move the story along (music, the way it's cut, etc) but that's kind of a given. What it does do, which is actually incredibly rare, is give the audience that little bit of space they need to bring their own interpretation to it. If you research reviews for the film you will find a huge range of reactions from outrage that the film even exists to shock at what goes on to gratitude at the people that made the movie for putting it together. Almost no other film that I know of sparks such a huge range of opinions. It's almost like the film becomes what you bring to it in many ways. Watch it. With friends! See more 07/22/2020 A film where I spent the whole time thinking, "How did they get THAT on camera?!" An incredible movie. And much deeper than you would think given the subject matter. See more Read all reviews

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