To me, this movie is perfection.

Powerful

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

This un-erotic documentary shows the life of Grace Quek, otherwise known as Annabel Chong, star of the World's biggest gang-bang. Quek seems to be a contradictory character. Even though she is doing graduate studies at USC and many of her teachers and friends refer to her high intelligence, she doesn't mind filming pornography and degrading herself. I'll give a semi-biographical synopsis of the movie's view of Quek from my personal perspective: Quek was born into a middle class family in Singapore. Her life seems OK. She decides to move to London to start college. One night she is brutally raped in an alleyway. Later she moves to LA, and while majoring in Gender Studies at USC, she decides to film porn as an experimentation against the anti-feminist views of society. The gang-bang is supposed to show her as a female stud who should be admired the same way as Hugh Hefner. I believe that first, Quek must have suffered from severe insecurity as a teenager due to her appearance(she does have rather bad teeth, and she feels that the porn community sees her as a beauty queen. Second, the rape she suffered extremely lower her self-esteem, to the point where she probably believes she has no worth. Hence, the porn makes her feel powerful. Still, she has extremely erratic behavior. When she is on Jerry Springer, she resembles a porn bimbo instead of a supposed graduate student. She attentively follows any order given by her porn producers, which are portrayed as they are, shameless pigs. Later she is discarded by them, and replaced with a better looking gang-bang girl.In one scene, when she starts yelling at someone on the streets and then runs, I get the sensation that she is extremely ashamed of herself and wishes to completely disappear from public view. But later, she is seen at an academic conference in London, again taking pride in her gang-bang. Either she's bi-polar or she suffers from multiple personality disorder. This documentary shows a lonely woman with extreme self-destructive behavior. She only has one friend, she doesn't seem to have a real emotional relationship, the porn community totally rejects her. As a viewer I ended up feeling sorry for this "porn star".

I actually have not seen this documentary, but would like to add that anyone who thinks this movie is good as porn or useful for masturbating is apparently forgetting that this is a DOCUMENTARY. From most people's comments though, this movie is a good at leaving questions to be answered from the viewer about her life, what's going on in her mind and a further look at what goes on in this business. And it's also important to take a better look at Annabel Chong herself, and not treat her like some passionless, worthless porn star who should shut up and only provide masturbating material and label her opinions as "pretentious" and "neo-feminist." That just proves the validity in her wanting to change the "slut" stereotype. If you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabel_Chong, you'll actually discover that she's well read and smart, earning a scholarship to study law in London. She also went to graduate school studying a few subjects, one of them being feminist studies. So you can see her thoughts aren't just coming from nowhere. And even if she didn't go to school...women DO have thoughts and opinions that are valid. Crazy, I know. If I get the chance, I would like to see the documentary after reading material from the link above; she sounds very interesting and she was at least someone who tried to turn things around. But alas, ignorance rules...

A number of the comments here seem way off the mark to me. Saying this woman is messed up & needs therapy and going on to complain that she's ugly says more about the commenter than the commented upon in my view.I guess all documentaries are constructed in such a way as to put forward an argument, but here again, some people are complaining about hidden agendas whereas others are complaining that not enough conclusions are drawn and demanding pat psychological explanations. It seems to me that the film presents you with the facts and asks you to decide for yourself what to think about them, and that that's no bad thing.I liked Grace by the end of the film. It's clear she has some issues and she's chosen a pretty unconventional way of working through them, but I don't think it's anyone's place to judge her. I'm glad to hear she's made some money from the documentary at least and seems to be doing OK in her new life as a computer geek. Interesting use of the word "geek" actually - now means computer buff, used to mean circus freak.

I got this out on DVD under the misled assumption that this was the story of a woman studying Gender Studies who, as part of her studies and for purposes of either research or a thesis, partook in a gang bang.WRONG!This was just a typical dirty slut who HAPPENED to also be studying at the same time. It was only about 10 minutes into the movie when I made the comment "Why does she speak so weird and jittery like she's drugged out?" and sure enough, she'd been a drug addict, too.I don't think she is intelligent. I think the best description of her was made by one of her schoolteachers (I think it was a teacher) "Grace reminds me of an introvert. An introvert who is trying to be extroverted." and that about defines her.One minute she's so proud in a "I don't give a f*** what anyone thinks of me" way and the next she is embarrassed, smiling falsely, crying and begging her mother for forgiveness.It reminds me of a few similar dramas I've seen about innocent young women who get into porn for money, then become drug addicts and eventually kill themselves, only the quality of this doco is incredibly poor.I would think more highly of her if I believed she was truly comfortable with the choices she has made - but I think there is constant evidence throughout this film that she is not.