A documentary about porn? I'm in!
This documentary is about the flourishing Amateur Porn genre. We see manager Riley Reynolds who has a big appartement in Miami where the newcomers live with him. We get to see 4 or 5 different girls and hear from them, but mostly we follow the journey of Tressa Silguero, whose carreer we follow.
It starts off with a montage, almost cliche with many different internetsites, clicks, scenes from TV interviews etc. All throughout the documentary we get this modern stuff like twitter subscriber counts and clicks on porn sites.
After the montage we get to see different girls, seeing the life of upstarting amateur porn actress who makes 1000 dollars in a few hours and spending them in almost the same time.
Then we see it slowly degrading until we get an ending montage what the girls are doing now (spoiler: most of them quit after a few months).
I gotta say at the beginning I had problems following everything, we just get attacked with so many girls and their names plus their porn names etc. so it was kind of hard for me to follow. After I got into it it was okay though and from that on I found this to be a very interesting documentary.
It's not so much about porn, I think only one time in the whole documentary do we see behind the scenes of a real porn shoot. We get some fotoshoot scenes and a few porn scenes (always only the beginning, the talking to the camera guy), but mostly this is about the girls. Most of the time we follow Tressa, get to meet her parents and her boyfriend and have some heartbraking scenes of the parents reactions and of the reaction of the boyfriend. Then we also get to see glimpses of the party life, of going out, having fun.
Surprisingly, there is not much nudity in this documentary. We get to see some topless girls, but mostly in the intro when they scrolling through databases of porn actresses. I think we didn't get any nudity from 3 or 4 of the 5 girls.
So the documentary was very interesting, seeing how the amateur girls are being used and not really as happy as they seemed in the beginning. But as I said before, the intro went a little too long and we always got these info texts on black screen which were kind of annoying after some time. This documentary tried to be modern and succeeded in some parts but in my opinion they played it up too much, all those twitter follower counts got boring after some time.
All in all it was a very interesting topic, handled very discret but still very effective. It had some downsides though. I give it 3.5 out of 5 stars, give it a try, but best don't watch it with your parents.
PS: wow after tagging this I feel like I just uploaded a porn video myself
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