Wow! Such a good movie.

Did you people see the same film I saw?

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Who produced this? The Christian Right ? This is just a anti-porn propaganda flick.I resent that they deliberately kept looking down on the sex-work that the girls were doing. And that they kept on using advocates who hated the industry and saw pornography as morally wrong.If they wanted to be fair and balanced the voices of girls who liked the job and saw it as a stepping stone out of their mundane lives.Instead at one point we have this huge dialogue a debate of whether pornography and prostitution were the same thing. And that porn actresses were "better" than prostitutes.I dislike shows which have an agenda and preach it down your throat while at the same time pretending to be impartial. I had a ton of that bs at church.

I definitely fit into a polar stance immediately with this sort of subject matter, which I then try to reason myself away from in an attempt to absorb the rationale of who creates this sort of work that demonizes (Oh no, surprise, surprise, I too, have been involved in porn!) a previous profession. But for what purpose? Stigma, nothing more, and here you DO get to see it in all it's contrived made-for- TV glory. Here is where the real weakness in this production is, first off, the ad campaign for this flick essentially gave away the better comments/shots in this movie (as advertising is prone to do currently, sure.) Secondly, The most relatable and telling part is the house atmosphere; I lived in a house like that and got that vibe of creeping exploitation that does prey on the uninformed and ill- educated. Third, no real analysis of how production companies operate, only the fallout and hearsay as filtered through a emotive lens. Plus, let's just go ahead and focus on the sad story and not the more interesting (or at least nuanced) stories of the other performers. There's lip service paid to proliferation of camera technology in the last decade that essentially creates the fast-paced commodity culture that is what seems to be sucking the art out of porn. So what your left with is sensationalism, of a prevaricated, but very real viewpoint that unfortunately gets boiled down to the kind of desperation that would cause someone to accept money for further exploitation of not just (the sanitized bits) of your porn life, but your personal one as well. I concur that these are very much the kind of girls that get passed on in professional porn, so the amateur market tends to be the way to go for them, and if you have the kind of manager portrayed here, you got the dime-a-dozen losers that have no solid public relations skills (but it's no surprise given our fly-by-night capitalist wingnut culture that allows what is fleeting-moment-sex-art to thrive by managers like this one to essentially flourish.) It's the reality that these performers are faced with, but the movie chooses to begrudgingly accept, rather than engage with serious focus on the next possible evolution of the amateur porn market and how it would affect them.No mention of how the forced oral sites got funded (I saw these sites advertised for like a month or 3, then on to cute girls on webcams) so I don't see much of the economic forces having to be accountable to what could be described as potentially harmful to future employment material. Where values and market forces honestly meet aren't given much value in this as much as just trying to get you to feel sorry for the girl from the conservative hunter head- bender background having to admit she was a porn star to her daddy (I wonder what they told him the cameras were there for?) You see a boyfriend add to the double guilt trip laid on by her parents, but you don't see the typical suitcase pimp boyfriend that would be extra chummy with Mr. House Manager hanging about going, "that bondage ain't so bad, you know." This movie does do something unforgivable as far as enlightening anything to do with porn, but sex work in general, is to add to the stigma by denigrating forced oral and BDSM as beneath them. The fact you see no real thoughtful response on that shows how toxic the hard-to-regulate industry can be with regards to wimmin in this society, and in particular this house with the laissez-faire YOLO attitude. I, at least wanted thoughtful dialogue about the cyst that developed on one performer, but no (my theory on that, by-product of hours of uncomfortable porn sex with condoms and not enough lube, but I would of really liked the doc's answer on that.)In the end, on the amateur market, if you wanted better performers, they would have a better negotiation apparatus to utilize and be snubbed for the less expensive girls you see here. Also, the cinematography does nothing to really get you to know these girls in any meaningful way. In short, it objectifies and rattles it's subject for the right, I'd guess, reality TV feel. It didn't quite work for me at all, and just reeked of laconic porn-bashing. It's bad enough porn isn't physically designed not to be the most pleasant thing in the world, now it has to be a sorority-sister secret-shame time. It recalls The Real Cancun in it's essence, just with more editing techniques scrapped together from the last decade. If you ask me, shifting attitudes about porn is going to take a better effort than this one.

I have read the other reviews here and the majority falls down to two categories; anti-porn (exploitation) and pro-porn (choice). I saw more pro-porn, guess some people don't want to accept the vindictiveness of their porn.But that's not what this documentary is about. This documentary is based around the coming and going actress within the industry and how their naivety are taking advantage of for a couple of months when they are "young and stupid". But, they also have the choice to do it. They were giving a home, money, and the perfect life style of being "free" and doing what they wanted to do.The best is they are free to leave when they want to. When the actress had enough, they are even congratulated and they are left alone. The reason for the niceness is because the "model finders" (Ex: Riley) always know there will be four other young girls to take her place. Like Riley said; "Every day a girl turns 18 and every day a girl wants to do porn." This is a powerful piece because it didn't rely on drama nor facts, it relied on reality. I was glad that Riley allowed the documentary to take place as he knows this won't change anything. Women will keep entering the industry and lads like him will still be getting richer. The cycle won't end for him and he is fully aware of it. Just look at his face at the end of the documentary. His grin says it all.

This documentary could have been so much better. They made a choice early in process to be very myopic in scope. Maybe it is due to the secretive nature of the business. But I would preferred more statistics, and company names. The movie did take a heart felt look at the porn actresses lives which was somewhat interesting but nothing surprising. Somewhat confusing however because the girls had screen names and real names and couple of them look similar to each other. Also the seemed to focus on the girls having trouble rather than the more balanced girls. Spoiler, the more balanced girls seemed to have better outcomes regardless of whether they continued to do porn or left the industry. Overall for a documentary it took a more emotional tone that to me weakens a documentary that should emphasized the power of media and porn industry. Also while they hinted at how porn has influenced mainstream media they didn't really show how the trend got started. i would have appreciated more statistics about the women leaving the industry, like rate of STDs, Domestic Violence, Unemployment, Drug Abuse and etc. It is highly disturbing that 'teen' is the most popular porn search term.