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La vida secreta de las acompañantes universitarias | Reseña y opinión
> > Hay películas que son difíciles de catalogar en un rango negativo si se toma en cuenta todos los elementos que tiene, porque puede ser que su argumento sea malo, pero tiene buenos actores, o la historia es buena los actores son buenos, pero el ambiente, el maquillaje o la dirección no fue la mejor. También sucede que todas las partes estuvieron bien, pero su cierre fue malo. Entonces tomar una decisión es más difícil para un crítico de cine. Una de las películas que me pone en una decisión difícil es The Secret Life of College Escorts, porque tiene muchos elementos que no me gustaron pero otros sí. > > Es una película relativamente nueva del año 2022, de suspenso mi género favorito y con las actuaciones de Pilot Paisley-Rose, Laurie Fortier y DJames Jones actores que si bien no son tan famosos han hecho varias películas y para mí ya son conocidos. > > * * * > > #Sinopsis


There are films that are difficult to rate negatively when you take all their constituent elements into account, because the plot might be poor but the acting is good, or the story might be good and the acting is good, but the atmosphere, make-up or direction haven’t been up to scratch. It also happens that all the elements are good, but the ending is poor. That’s why it’s harder for a film critic to reach a verdict. One of the films that presents me with a difficult decision is The Secret Life of University Escorts, because it has many elements I didn’t like, but others I did.
It’s a relatively new film from 2022, a thriller – my favourite genre – starring Pilot Paisley-Rose, Laurie Fortier and DJames Jones, actors who, although not particularly famous, have appeared in several films and are already familiar to me.
Synopsis
A group of university friends go to a party; one of them dies unexpectedly in murky circumstances. Eve, who is mourning her friend, loses her scholarship and, in desperation, accepts a job that, on the surface, seems like the best solution, without realising that it is linked to her friend’s death.
I feel that films which are inspired by or draw on real-life elements to develop their story have a solid foundation. There are thousands of young people studying on scholarships who, for whatever reason, lose them, causing them stress and distress and changing the course of their lives; continuing their studies remains the goal, but without financial resources it is not possible.

This is what happened to Eve, who had a sports scholarship that was unfairly withdrawn; however, within the same student environment, an opportunity arose to work part-time: she was to act as an escort for senior executives and millionaires. When she accepted the job, she did not know what it entailed, as her duties were never clearly explained to her, and, to bind her to the arrangement, her student debts were written off.
This method is used by modelling agencies that employ this façade to conceal their true purpose: young people who fall into prostitution or escort networks. Falling into these networks is easy; getting out of them is the hard part, and that is the crux of the film. Eve finds out everything and devises a plan to expose this mafia.
There are some scenes with good thriller pacing; however, the characters feel underdeveloped, the dialogue is often abrupt, and some scenes are confusing.
For about 80 per cent of the film, the plot unfolds in a linear fashion, but in the final section the director seemed to want to rush everything – perhaps due to a lack of budget – and made an abrupt cut, resulting in a ridiculous and nonsensical ending that feels like a joke, which completely undermines all the suspense and the impression the viewer has built up; because of that ending, I find it hard to rate this film, which gets a 70 – which, all things considered, isn’t too bad.


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Rating: 70/100


