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I Am a Sex Addict
Just moments before his third wedding, Zahedi relates with utter sincerity and astonishing candor his obsession with prostitutes. He retraces his romantic and sexual history, including his ideological commitment to open relationships, that led to two disastrous marriages and several very pissed off ex-girlfriends.
Release : | 2005 |
Rating : | 6 |
Studio : | Reinventing the Wheel, |
Crew : | Additional Camera, Additional Camera, |
Cast : | Caveh Zahedi Rebecca Lord Anastasia Gershman Lindsey Tjian Tiffany Mynx |
Genre : | Comedy Romance |
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Just what I expected
It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
i have one question for this man Caveh Zahedi sir what where your thinking when you decided to make a film on your own life plus your start yourself in it,would be nice if you selected someone else to play your part but that didn't happen the characters we see are real and the big thing is they are playing the roles of themselves almost all of them if this wasn't the case this autobiographical film would have turned out as a decent film there are films made before this for example private parts and newly release the wolf of wall-street 2013.the plot:Caveh is a sex addict he tells his story about his love for prostitutes that affected his relationships with other women & life.this film is extremely annoying the lead actor is not an actor looks like he made this film only for himself,the narrative is weird some people also mentioned Woody Allen style here i am no fan of Allen but he never makes stuff like this everything seems forced.the cast:Caveh Zahedi disappoints as an actor he performs like a stand up comedian,rest of the cast is passable except Rebecca Lord who looked great in the frame each time she appeared.if your looking for sex in this film please there are no such scenes so beware this film gives more hints on Atychiphobia then sex addiction since this is based on Caveh Zahedi;s real life one may ask did he recovered from the addiction or not who knows critics may have liked this but this is strictly not for audience.Overall I Am A Sex Addict 2005 is a very below average effort from Caveh Zahedi my rating is 2/10:Skipp it.
It's been more than 48 hours since I watched this pitiful exercise in ego masturbation disguised as film, and I still can not erase that truly vile scene of the narrator receiving oral sex, out of my mind. While I can admire anyone willing to open up and bare their soul on camera warts and all, throughout the entire movie, I never once got the feeling that the director/star ever felt a bit of remorse that his obsession with hookers lead to the demise of several of his relationships with women. He also comes across as an egomaniac as well: none of the real women he was in relationships with look anything like the porn stars he used in the reenactments.Find a better way to waste 90 minutes of your life.
When I was growing up in NYC, all the girls I knew would have most likely had a word for this guy: a creep. Not attractive in any way, not even in a Woody Allen or R Crumb intellectual/brilliant/funny sort of way, Caveh is repugnant to look at, with his scrawny body, weird face and even weirder ideas about relationships. I found it hard to believe that the women depicted in the movie (and shown in their real-life identities as well) would be attracted to him in the first place. This having been said, the film was interesting.He does attempt to explore areas that have not really been dealt with in this particular way before - how some people (women, in this movie) try to be open-minded with their boyfriend's behavior and confessions about sex but in reality, they can't actually accept it. This has been shown before, of course, in other movies, but it's the way it's depicted here that is quite original. And it rings true: I've learned that in intimate relationships of any kind, it's quite possibly impossible to be thoroughly forth-coming (no pun intended). It was mind-boggling to watch Caveh perversely attempting to be a hundred percent honest - his version of it, anyway - and how it always wound up being not only destructive to every relationship, but, even worse, it came across as being cruel, obtuse and self-indulgent.There are funny parts in the film though. What I thought was the most hilarious was how, whenever he would approach a hooker, he would ask "How much" and when she told him, he would say, "I have to think about it." Then he would ask other hookers what they were charging, as if he were comparison shopping. This struck me as being really humorous. I understood that he was also getting off on merely talking to them, of course, and he was indeed not sure if he was gonna go through with it many times, but it was the comparison-shopping factor that made me laugh. More seriously, it was very revealing to see how his thoughts and feelings on the conscious level versus the unconscious and subconscious levels regarding women were completely opposite. Throughout the film, he keeps talking about transcending negative feelings, like jealousy for instance, but yet he finds that when the tables are turned by one of his female lovers, he is consumed by jealousy and transcendence is nowhere in sight. He throws these words out like the can be simplistically applied, without deep inner work, expecting things from others that he is sadly inequipped to give, inadvertently making him a hypocrite.More along these lines, he states in the film that he respects women, he's a feminist, blah blah blah, but yet his behavior toward them as shown in the course of the proceedings is criminally selfish. At one point, he even says he looked at one of the women he was pursuing for sex, saw her soul, and shockingly realized she was a real person, with real needs and feelings of her own. Welcome to the human race, Caveh.
Do documentaries or mockumentaries get any worse than this? If you've read the other reviews then you know the focus: a self-involved film maker wants to introduce you to his sexual habits.Unfortunately, his sexual habits aren't very interesting or original or even entertaining. There isn't much sex on display here, just a lot of talk about sex, and you've heard it before. He does a lot of agonizing about his relationships, and possibly doesn't know himself that he just comes off as a fool. Not in a funny way, either, but in that way where you're glad he doesn't live near you, or isn't involved with anyone you know.Mainly it's a self-indulgent documentary about his past sexual relationships with nothing interesting to carry it. An extended version of the average high schooler telling you about how he scored with the cheerleader. You won't believe it here, either.