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An unflinching look at Los Angeles' top exotic & private dancers. Enter with a full-access pass into the lives of five women whose raw ambitions drive them through struggles and taboo to female empowerment.

VIEWS ON FILM review of Stripped: Los Angeles

Hmm, disagree that they are top dancers in LA

&quot;I&#39;m going to be a stripper&quot;. So says performer Della Dane with pet Chihuahua in tote via Stripped: Los Angeles. As proclaimed in Pretty Woman, &quot;welcome to Hollywood, what&#39;s your dream?&quot; Anyway, Stripped: Los Angeles is my latest write-up. It was released by way of Internet in the fall of 2020. Its director (Manhattan native Marc Ostrick) shoots the film in mostly slow-motion with a sort of enclosed framing. Despite numerous interviews with close-ups, it&#39;s almost like viewing a mature audiences TikTok video. So OK, &quot;Stripped&quot; is somewhat explicit but not &quot;off the chain&quot; explicit. It&#39;s a documentary mind you and it&#39;s about the lives of five women who happen to be the top private dancers in LA. They&#39;re content, they make money, and you don&#39;t really here from anyone else in their existence except them. Stripped: Los Angeles uses title cards to give insight into other stuff these women do besides strip. A couple of them make porn on the side, one is into art, one of them looks into bodybuilding, another plays music in a band, most of them smoke the ganja, and almost all of them have a love for animals (cats and dogs). &quot;Stripped&quot; runs fleeting at 80 minutes as it becomes a mere snapshot instead of a full-length feature. It&#39;s well filmed from a technical aspect but almost yarn-free in its narrative aspirations. Besides the present day footage, there&#39;s no real beginning, middle, or end. These women have pasts (as we all do) and there&#39;s a level of sympathy for them that goes along with their networking success. Still, Stripped: Los Angeles &quot;strips&quot; them of making their plight into something much more farsighted. If you&#39;ve seen the occasional nudity, the occasional drug use, loads of tats, and the occasional pole dancing, you ain&#39;t seen much.

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Stripped: Los Angeles

First of all, I do respect the female stories: their struggles, social stigma, abuse. They are true professionals in their field and could be quite competitors. However, I am really not sure if they could turn anyone on. They give off a cheap, low class vibe. Right after watching this, I switched to &quot;Striptease&quot; (1996) with Demi Moore, where the dancers are nicer, with natural hair, zero tattoos and first class attitude.

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The documentary aims to humanize women in the adult entertainment industry instead of just viewing them as objects to be sexualized.
They all have a past sad past and have found liberation in taking ownership of their sexuality and making a living out of it.

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Forget the haters. This is a great film about some powerful women using stripping as their form as expression. Read between the lines people - 8 stars from me!

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It is well written and edited. Goes into many interesting topics and the girls reveal their views and experiences very nicely. I started to watch it with low expectations but it totally won my respect.
Well done.

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Stripped: Los Angeles

VIEWS ON FILM review of Stripped: Los Angeles

Hmm, disagree that they are top dancers in LA

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