Story
Max is a high-strung twenty-something who, up until this point, has coped with a recent traumatic sexual experience with baking, positive affirmations, therapy— you name it. In a bid to finally process the event, she hires a sex worker, Lucy, to recreate the scene. Lucy, however, is unaware of this and enters the scene believing that they’re doing a general consensual non-consensual scene (CNC).
During role play, Max becomes obsessed with getting it “exactly right” and becomes increasingly upset at the details not being perfect. Max begins to panic and suddenly, while wielding a wine glass, bottle and a corkscrew that simply won’t work, she begins to devolve.
Lucy realizes that this is not what she signed up for, at all, but when Max’s frantic unraveling culminates in a broken glass and a defeated Max sitting in a pool of wine, Lucy decides to try to help. Now witnessing true vulnerability from Max, Lucy decides to ask her a simple question: “What do you actually want from this?” Max is stumped. She’s never even considered the question. Gradually, through Lucy’s patient and gentle guidance, Max allows herself to have an entirely different experience not at all orchestrated but entirely organic and fulfilling.
Simultaneously heart-wrenching and hilarious, the film showcases the transcendence of female pleasure.
Tone
Give it to Me takes dark subject matter and pairs it with the awkward intensity of a new sexual experience. Honest and grounded, this story doesn't shy away from the taboo or shameful, but instead allows us to laugh at the confusing duality of living in a traumatized body. Give it to Me shows the heaviness of trauma living alongside the joyous hilarity of being human and reminds us that there is no “right” way to heal.
Theme
Women are rarely taught to consider what they want sexually. They often discover their sexual desires in response to something that “happens to them” rather than considering their pleasure as an act in and of itself. When Max is asked what she wants by someone who doesn’t want anything from her in return, she realizes that she truly doesn’t know. No one has ever asked her before.
Give It To Me suggests there is pleasure in making a choice. — By taking a dark subject and giving it a comedic spin, we hope this film will inspire women to explore their desires regardless of their sexual pasts.
