Went to see this last night. I had read nothing but good reviews, but the movie seemed kind of flat to me. I expected it to be more about the psychology behind the people who found themselves drawn into the world of pornography-- but instead the movie was hardly about pornography at all, and more about dumb, coke-addled young wannabe's who could have been in any kind of entertainment field-- these characters could have been working on a sit-com in the 70's and have turned out that way. Remember the cast of Different Strokes, anyone? I don't think the pornography setting ended up really meaning anything and was used to make the movie seem more daring than it really was.
The whole theme of this movie was that people have to go out and find a family if their own does not satisfy. Did you notice how Dirk returns to Jack Prodigal-son style when he was in trouble, and not to his own family? The porn industry setting just illustrates how there are some people out there who do not fit the usual mold, and they have to seek others like themselves to form a family and protect each other from those that will take advantage. I thought it was a great movie and a lot of it really hit home for me. Maybe you should see it again and look beyond the surface.
Oh, no I saw everything you're talking about. My point was that the movie cloaked itself in being about pornography to make it seem like something that it wasn't. Much like "Disclosure" tried to make itself seem like it was about reverse sexual harrassment when it was really nothing but a mediocre corporate thriller and not about sexual harrassment at all. My objection was with the way the movie was promoted-- not with the actual content of the film, which as I said was fine, but a little flat compared to what I was expecting.
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what was the movie about?????
I thought the acting was pretty great though- especially Burt Reynolds.
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