I’m pretty pleased that Steven Sodergergh hired the world’s most market-savvy porn star and used her to make what amounts to a big-budget mumblecore movie about capitalism as prostitution. I dig the film’s implication that our high-gloss, sell-or-be-sold culture encourages us to hollow out our actual lives for the sake of our personal brands; and I love the postmodern twist of casting someone who’s by all appearances living that critique (and owning it?) to play the lead role. But—and this is a real question for anyone who’s seen the movie—how is the last scene not Ezra Pound–levels of anti-Semitic?
