The Girlfriend Experience - Entry*

I think for those of us who don’t have our heads deeply embedded in the sand, it is understood that when there is lots of money and the prestige that follows the talent involved in a profession that has the ability to eventually include affluence and cater to indulgencies that derive from the accumulation of wealth that allure can offer plenty to those successful. There are those who struggle everyday to make ends meet. It isn’t that we aren’t bright enough or have enough wits about us to stand alongside such “pillars of privilege”, the small percentage who can afford the yacht, luxury cars, Pier One furniture, and a swimming pool in the back. I’ll personally never understand how it is to feel the wind in my hair as I take to the open road in the hot ride or fill an envelope with enough green to acquire the services of an alluring escort. But to just be close to that world is perhaps what draws Avery to her “client” (although she is more of a lover who has the feels for him), some married lawyer in real estate, with the fancy digs, extravagant cars, and access to the kind of cash that indeed affords beautiful young women willing to give their bodies and time to him. Avery (Kate Lyn Sheil) uses the “online profile” of Ashley, but her current civilian life outside of the escort world is a law student. Friends with another law student named Christine (Riley Keough), she introduces her to a friend of her lover’s, a charming older man named Martin (Aidan Devine).

Christine lands an internship for a company involved in the silicone coding of hip replacement parts, more or less a paralegal typing boilerplate (Cease and Desist “copy and paste” restrictions to a letter she thought could use some creative gloss gets the angst-scolding treatment from an attorney, David (Paul Sparks)) hoping to perhaps land a job there. Christine is one cool customer, never breaking much from a face of resolve. When David calls her into his office and gives her a one-over about the Cease and Desist letter, Christine doesn’t break a sweat or let him break her down. That impresses him. Avery is quite the opposite.

She tries to hold a serious calm, and maintain an unwavering icy chill, but there are fractures like when Avery “invites” Christine to a dinner with her lover and Martin. Clearly this is important to Avery who is probably doing her lover a favor by trying to ease Christine into an escort night with Martin. When Christine tries to ask questions about this setup,  Avery isn't able to brush  aside the annoyance. She wants this to work if just to keep her client happy.

Martin does have personality and is a laid back guy, so Christine doesn’t appear bothered to be near him, but when Avery introduces the envelope with the money (“It can be just for drinks”) the night carries with it the potential for something else entirely. Keough smiles a bit and laughs when reading texts (“sexts”) on Avery’s phone, curious and interested in her experiences. An early scene has Christine going up to a young man in a club she finds attractive with the proposition of a night fuck. He doesn’t turn her down and it results in a bit of lap sex that takes a unique path towards masturbation. He later sees Christine in conversation with Avery but she is no longer interested. He was but a dick and a body she found much to her liking. So Christine is a sexual creature who becomes nudged into the escort world, but the conclusion of Entry has her going over what Avery inserted her into with little preparation. The eyes dart back and forth as the wheels turn with Christine deciding on what her next moves will be. Martin, though, seems quite willing for the night to continue…