Caught a preview screening at Hot Docs earlier this year and this was without a doubt the most unsettling theatre experience of the festival.
I didn't know much about the pick-up world before watching this documentary and all I can say is this film leaves no stone unturned.
It begins innocently enough, with the origins of the pick up ideology back in the 1980s before moving onto the subculture as it is today. And by all accounts the industry is everywhere. In every major city across the world, it is now a billion dollar business. The film shows the ideology taught by many of these pickup schools as well as the students that sign up to the courses before diving head first into the darker sides of the culture.
An extremely powerful film. Brilliantly structured, tragic and cinematic. More than worth your time.
I didn't know much about the pick-up world before watching this documentary and all I can say is this film leaves no stone unturned.
It begins innocently enough, with the origins of the pick up ideology back in the 1980s before moving onto the subculture as it is today. And by all accounts the industry is everywhere. In every major city across the world, it is now a billion dollar business. The film shows the ideology taught by many of these pickup schools as well as the students that sign up to the courses before diving head first into the darker sides of the culture.
An extremely powerful film. Brilliantly structured, tragic and cinematic. More than worth your time.
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