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Jun 28, 2012 Pornography: A Thriller in an ambitious failure. A single story told in three parts without a real driving force behind it, the film is never able to put the pieces together adequately on screen for the story to make any logical sense. The filmmakers were trying for dream logic, to be fair, so to say they flubbed the editing or the writing is not entirely fair. However, when the mystery takes place over three different time periods and the sole intent of the film is to confuse the viewer, it's not smart; it's frustrating. This would have been a much more interesting film if any of the individual stories had been fleshed out to cover the entire running time (the rise and fall of Mark Anton; the gay porn historian; the actor/writer/director creating his version of what happened to Anton). The actors do all they can with the material even if very little makes sense and the overall story is impossible to piece together. And, lets be honest: a movie about the gay porn industry and named "Pornography" is expected to be, well, titillating. The film never really achieves that, either. See more Jan 23, 2011 I really enjoyed this movie. Although the story line, gay porno stars who disappear, may not appeal to everyone; I found the movie to be interesting, artistic and freshly appealing. Montgomery did an excellent job portraying Michael Castigan and I really enjoyed his performance. I also liked the fact that the gay men were not portrayed in the typical manner as a bunch of limped wristed, hip swagging, lisp talking fags. Instead, they were wonderfully acted as intelligent, artistic, handsome men who happen to be attracted to other men. It was refreshing and I loved the movie. See more Jan 16, 2011 Pornography: A Thriller in an ambitious failure. A single story told in three parts without a real driving force behind it, the film is never able to put the pieces together adequately on screen for the story to make any logical sense. The filmmakers were trying for dream logic, to be fair, so to say they flubbed the editing or the writing is not entirely fair. However, when the mystery takes place over three different time periods and the sole intent of the film is to confuse the viewer, it's not smart; it's frustrating. This would have been a much more interesting film if any of the individual stories had been fleshed out to cover the entire running time (the rise and fall of Mark Anton; the gay porn historian; the actor/writer/director creating his version of what happened to Anton). The actors do all they can with the material even if very little makes sense and the overall story is impossible to piece together. And, lets be honest: a movie about the gay porn industry and named "Pornography" is expected to be, well, titillating. The film never really achieves that, either. See more Dec 15, 2010 It got me hooked up .. but in the end I didn't get it. See more Nov 4, 2010 In less amateurish hands, I sense this could have been more than the intriguing, visually interesting mess it is. I love Lynchian puzzles like this, but not when they collapse in on themselves from narrative incomprehensibility. See more Oct 25, 2010 "Smile for the camera." Why do we watch and what do we really want to see? For the characters in this film, their lives take on a twisted inevitability, where time has no meaning and their existence is in question. The viewer is the key to their survival. The plot is insubstantial. Do they give us what we really want to see? That's all that really matters. It's inevitable. See more Read all reviews

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