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Bella Cherry arrives in Los Angeles with dreams of becoming an adult film star, but she soon learns that fame won't come easy as she harnesses her ambition and cunning to rise to the top of this mesmerizing and singular world.
Basically the polar inverse of Boogie Nights, with way more dicks and jizz on screen.
Ninja Thyberg directs sex scenes the same way an 80s action movie would frame hand-to-hand combat - full of danger, like a fight to the death. A lot of critics said the movie is nuanced and balanced about the sex industry but I certainly did not get that impression.
I was annoyed when I came across this because I've been writing a sort-of similar spec about the porn industry, but it's a great movie. I highly recommend if you have the stomach for it.
For what it's worth, I have a friend who worked in porn for a lot of years, including with many of the people that appear in Pleasure, and he said that its depiction of the industry was completely fair and extremely accurate.
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My friend shared one in-joke with me: the guy who plays the male performer who needs injections to get it up is, in reality, a performer specifically known for 100% reliability who's actually the guy that people call in to save the day when another performer is having erection problems.
Fantastic movie. My friend shared one in-joke with me: the guy who plays the male performer who needs injections to get it up is, in reality, a performer specifically known for 100% reliability who's actually the guy that people call in to save the day when another performer is having erection problems.