Product: The Dead Girl (2006)
Rating: 2.0
2 and a half stars
this movie doesn't suck, but its not good either. my first problem with it are the titles given to the stories in this movie. these aren't necessary, they're annoying, and the stories should just fade to black when they end (and fade in when the next one begins). we can guess who the characters are without the title descriptions.the second problem(s) with this movie are the choices that these women made, specifically with their bodies. i believe these poor choices are what link these women/stories together, not so much the Dead Girl. hypothetically, let's say the "stranger" DID NOT find the dead body. she'd still be an adult recluse, who's forced by her abusive mother to take care of her, and has no concept of what "real love" is, so she agrees to go out with a man she's never met and allows this serial killer obsessed-creep to tie her hands together so that they can have sex. i can't begin to tell you what's wrong with that woman, but doesn't she have enough sense to stay away from a guy who only talks about killers and victims? couldn't he be a/the killer?next is the "sister", who's medicated and depressed about her missing sister. she works with a guy, who obviously likes her, for 3 years, and she's never gone out with him. all of a sudden, she goes to one of his parties, has sex with him, and ignores his phone calls. those are the actions of a depressed person. the entire movie could've been about her and her parents in their never-ending quest to find their daughter/sister.then there's the wife of the suspected killer. when she finally puts 2 and 2 together about why he leaves her all time, she doesn't turn him in! does she still love that creep? i don't mean to ruin the movie, but she gathers all the evidence, burns it (!), throws the clothes that she's wearing in the fire(?!), and walks away naked. is that supposed to be symbolic? that's crazy and stupid (plus she's like 60 years old, nude).finally, you got the dead girl, not to mention her lesbian lover/co-worker. of course, they're prostitutes. the messed up thing is why the dead girl became a prostitute, because her mother turned a blind eye to the stepfather's sexual abuse of the girl, which led her to escape to california. the mother tracks down her last known whereabouts and finds her daughter's "friend" and the grandchild she didn't know about. i guess the only good thing that happens in this movie is a grandmother will raise her dead daughter's child the "right" way, probably to make up for her past mistakes.as a man, i adore women. but if there is any advice i can give, based off this movie, is to keep yourself sexually pure for as long as you can. if you're abused by anyone, especially a man, you fight them off and tell someone about it ASAP. if you don't, you might end up as a drug addict, prostitute, or in abusive and/or unfulfilled relationships for the rest of your life. or you'll just be killed, like the dead girl.