Thursday, September 04, 2014
All business
Today's film is a back-stager, a look inside the homo-porn film industry.
The title sounds sensational but the film is not.
Poco Più di un Anno Fa / Adored: Diary of a Porn Star.
Well, you know this is a disc only film. It is not likely to appear at your neighborhood theater. But maybe in Italy where it was made.
It is a nice story about a porn star who has it all or a lot of it. It is not sad. It is not moralistic. It is more realistic, I think.
There is an ambiguous ending which I will not reveal.
It seemed to me that this was a realistic and entertaining look at how a porn film is made and how the people in the business do their work.
Of course this requires a lot of scenes with naked men and rather realistic sex. A good thing from my viewpoint.
But it is not a porn film. Just about porn films.
I keep repeating this. The usual contradiction between "erotic" and stroke movies.
There is a strong central story with some romance and also the reunion of two brothers. One as straight as an arrow and failing at business as well as life. The other is the porn star.
The heart of the film is really about their relationship. Their father has died and the older serious brother comes to Rome to meet the estranged younger man who has a life and career well in place.
I have seen this at least once but probably more. It is a 5 out of Netflix5.
This is part of a series of gay DVDs that we own. These will be the films to watch while John is away. He won't miss any of the new Netflix films that we normally see together. And I will get to run through all the erotica again. A fair deal, I think.
