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(More customer reviews)I caught this documentary on Showtime and couldn't change the channel. I've been to Vegas about twenty times and, admittedly, I haven't given much thought to the people who actually live there. WOW.
When in Vegas, I'm usually so caught up in my own pleasure (and then regretful pain), I have no reason to shed brain cells on anything but gambling and partying. What I didn't realize is there is a motley population of people who call that place home: people with hopeless dreams of stardom; seemingly happy people with 9-5 jobs; people who are running away from something; people who would give anything to run somewhere else.
Artist Greg Friedler makes Las Vegas the destination where he completes the final book in his "Naked" series: "Naked Las Vegas." Filmmaker David Palmer documents Friedler's journey. I don't know much about this book series, but what Friedler did was photograph approximately 150 people with their clothes on and then completely nude. This is where the documentary gets so intoxicating. Once these random people take their clothes off in front the camera, they feek obligated to divulge the most intimate details of their bizarre lives... to a total stranger! So, with every nude body that we see, we get another glimpse into the desperate, tragic, yet often times hopeful lives of these Vegas locals. Initially, the expectation of more nudity kept me glued to the screen, but with each nude body came another intimate story, and eventually, like an addict, I was sucked into these people's remarkable lives.
This documentary captured the human condition in a way I've never seen before. Bravo.
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