Lie With Me

Lauren Lee Smith is great in this movie. Yes, she is very sexy although a little anorexic. The sex in this movis is explict and hot. When I ordered this movie (unrated edition) I expected a hot movie, what I did not expect was a movie that also had some profound messages.Ms Smith's character was frantic and needy, and sex was a way for her to get (love, approval, etc) immediate gratification on an emotional level. Her sexual responses are greedy and lustful. When she falls in love, she runs away from the feelings. The process she goes through is painful, but neccessary for her. The viewer is drawn in with her and becomes involved whether or not they want to be.Her love interest took care of his elderly father. They had an excellent relationship. He would bath him and cook for him, and was his caregiver. The movie showed in graphic detail what being a caregiver means. When he passes, he breaks down and takes the viewer on a journey that is rare in films.In short, if you like graphic sex and this movie has it, the sexual scenes are graphic but not vulger or sleezy. The story line is excellent and profound and I suspect that most women could watch this movie and identify with the main character. Good movie folks and it is a shame that only the sexual aspect is focused on.

I still can't believe Lauren Lee Smith was cut loose from "C.S.I." I am sure the other female lead had somthing to do with it, I won't name..names, but anyone who watches that show knows who I am talking about, now on to the review, after watching Smith in "C.S.I.'s 9th Season, I just had to see her in somthing else, & boy, did I, watching her in this made me realize how good an actress she is, & in this she is Leila, a sexually agressive woman who yearns for constant sex, & is drawn to David, the attraction in immediate & sure enough they hook up, there is subplots involving their parents that make them real people, the film is more of an art film, somthing so missing these days in Hollywood, so no one should expect a fast moving film, the only instant gratification is the sex, the sex scenes don't disappoint, in fact, this film is almost as close to an X as you can get, you get full frontal shots of both Leila & David, but the heart of the film is how they finally connect at the end, there isn't much more I can say that hasn't already been said in other reviews here, but this one is erotic, at least for me it was, Lauren Lee Smith is so stunning to look at here, you almost forget she was on "C.S.I." & you have to admire her for taking on a role of this nature, hope to see more of her, I bought this on a gamble having never seen it, & all I can say is... it was money well spent.

Bottom-Line: To be sure Lie With Me is not destined for the Oscar's, or even release in American theaters, but the movies was meaningful, timely, well directed, and well acted..The American--and apparently Canadian--dating scene(s) is a mess. If my eighteen year old daughter is to be believed, traditional dating for this generation of young adults is passé, hooking up (getting together just to have sex) is the norm, these days, not the exception. Virginity is no longer a commodity to be cherished, but a badge of shame to be discarded the moment the opportunity presents itself. Fellatio is now performed in bathrooms, dorm rooms and in groups settings with points handed out to the girl who performed the most BJ's in one sitting. While I can see how men benefit from this arrangement, I fail to see how women survive this ritual emotionally unscathed.I am not implying the women are weak, but they are more emotionally vulnerable than men at this stage of the game as it relates to sex and sexual gamesmanship. Men after all are biologically built to relate to sex as unattached minions moving about the world planting their seed in as many willing females as possible. At this stage in our development we men see sex as a road to domination and pleasure, as well as a biological and physiological imperative.Women on the other hand, invest much more emotional baggage in the act of sex, no matter the age. I don't see how acting like men and floating from partner to partner engaging in meaningless sex, does not emotionally and philologically harm women, if not on the surface of her soul, then far deeper where the scares can and are life long roadmaps all leading to emotional dysfunction. That is how nature made women, and therein lays the difference between the genders.Lie With Me (2005) attempts to tackle this changing landscape with a story that is laced with graphic sex, prodigious nudity and foul language, and no shortage emotionally charged messages that pay homage to a tradition well worth respecting, not rejecting. Released in 2005 Lie With Me sets about showing the shallow nature of relationships that are based purely on sex in our instant gratification based society.Directed by Jamaican born Clement Virgo with screenplay by his wife Tamara Berger--who also wrote the novel the movie is based on--Lie With Me begins with lead character Leila portrayed by Lauren Lee Smith (The L Word) lying topless on the couch in her apartment in Toronto, masturbating while watching a porn video. She soon finishes without climaxing and leaves her apartment to go crusin' for a piece; in other words she is looking to hook-up and she tells us a much in a narrations as we watch her enter a club, and make her way to the bathroom, all the while being groped by anonymous hands. But I got the impression that she enjoyed the detached enjoyment; it turned her on; as she puts it, she is good at fu_king and not very good at relationships, because they take work.While in the bathroom Leila meets a stranger, David portrayed by Eric Balfour (In Her Shoes, The O.C., Conviction) and forms an instant connection. But there is a problem; he has a girlfriend, Victoria portrayed by Polly Shannon (Earth Final Conflict, Direct Action), but Leila wants to have sex with David so she sets about seducing him by having sex with a nameless man in the parking lot of the club while he watches and has sex with Victoria in the front set of his car. Leila is in this for herself, and while engaged in intercourse continually warns the poor slob not to climax.My ViewpointsLie With Me is not for the faint of heart or for those easily offended by graphic depictions of sex and nudity, not to mention language only a sailor used to utter. Within the 93 minute span of the movie we are treated to almost everything: masturbation, undulating nude bodies, a woman holding a man's erect penis (2x), a man with his face buried between a woman's thighs (2x), repetitive scenes of simulated intercourse (anal and vaginal), and plenty of frontal male and female nudity.Both Lauren Lee Smith and Eric Balfour need to be praised for their unabashed portrayal of their characters; most of the nudity and sex belonged to them. Lie With Me owes its authenticity to these actors shameless and real portrayals of twenty-something's searching for a connection real enough hold on to. They hide nothing, hold nothing back in their depictions; it helps that their chemistry on screen was almost palpable. Some many argue that the sex became repetitive after a few scenes, but I would argue that it is through the repeated sex that the two principle characters formed their connection.To be sure Lie With Me is not destined for the Oscar's, or even release in American theaters, but the movies was meaningful, timely, well directed, and well acted. And the movie is titillating without going overboard. If you watch Lie With Me keep the kiddies far, far away; this movie is for adults only.