Dirty Games

Dirty Games

Dirty Games aka Game of Love is the most recent film by Proportion Productions which falls in the category of an erotic thriller after they released Graphic Designs, Cam Girls and one of their old films Darker Shades of Elise. And like the aforementioned Cam Girls, Dirty Games appears to be part of a new series of erotic films that Left Films has begun to roll out in the UK, alongside other recent releases such as director Louisa Warren’s Dirty Work, a project I raise, not simply because of the name similarity, but also because of Warren’s links with Scott Jeffrey of Proportion Productions who produced this erotic affair anyway.

Dirty Games shifts focus on contestants in a new reality gameshow who also includes the protagonist Lucy who and where his/her contestants win cash prizes for completing challenges during the game show but are also watched by the audience everyday during the competition who can send in requests to boost the prize amount. What starts out as fun and flirting with games, switching partners and winning money soon takes a twisted turn when the viewer requests get more and more depraved.

I’ll cut to the quick much like its recently released Brit-lensed brethren, Dirty Games is precisely the movie that you would have rented as a teenager instead of actually wacking. A film that back then has been put together by either Jag Mundhra or Andrew Stevens but on a shoestring budget like this one but looks a million times better and thus a lot hotter. Here everything looks a tad too surgical.

But then again that can be overlooked to the reason that the people in question are doing what the viewer wants them to do, because how do you sex up the business of paying for something? You go straight to the business end of things!

Stress-free, and quite like Graphic Designs, there is more to Dirty Games than simply people taking off their clothes and rubbing their bodies together you just have to endure all of that first. When I say sit through it I mean, endure, for this time around the script was penned by Sophie Storm K. who worked on Bloody Mary and Easter Bunny Massacre for Scott Jeffrey and it felt like it was being penned by a pubescent boy.

What stands out the most is the voyeuristic depiction of women watching others copulate and then assisting in the process, which is an insult of epic proportions to all women. All of Dirty Games feels like the imagination of a fourteen-year-old boy who has not had the benefit of having an experience with anything sexual.

Things are however different in the latter sections of the film Dirty Games when the “thriller” part of the film kicks in and the plot revolves around one character being killed and the other’s struggle against the accusations of murder.

I actually should say ‘comes to the fore’ as there are sex scenes with Lucy, two of them, and Georgias introduction scene, before anything else, the game gets thrilling thrilling in the sense that Lucy learns the house death was a death ordered by the mobile phones that directs contestants during the game. Along the sense, however, there is lack of much blood, only die hard fans would relish. And Liam is directed to make sure that Lucy’s sex with James is avenged and in actual sense is a case of sex in the later parts of the film.

In the end, the final scene of Dirty Games is witnessed and the viewership is likely to be as lost as the last contestants. But it is also true, that Dirty Games is made in such a way that it reveals its purpose towards the very end of the film its purpose of exploring what reality television can do to achieve popularity and how much it costs one’s personal space, respect, etc. But by then it is about “too little, too late” whereby the statement manages to carry no true meaning. In fact, it is as if it was added just to make Dirty Games look even deeper and more philosophical than the T&As which it actually is!

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