There is a big field of study in Pornoland as it's logic & evident that corresponding directors have also their trademarks: here i could identify really quick & easy that it was a Paul Thomas flick: very urban, not the glamour LA but the decaying one, sex in factories and couple in crisis!
This time, the movie is really good: Dasha is really exceptional, not as much for her sex scenes (only 1 is full, the other is about dildo play and the last is more peeping) but for her straight acting: she is convincing as poor hair-dresser becoming fired, then as an abused wife and then as the assistant of an courageous adult photographer, the classic and truly good guy, Mike Horner! For all Dasha fans, this is a must see and a great job from this true beauty!
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Phony melodrama
lor_13 March 2023
Paul Thomas stubs his toe with this ridiculous melodrama which has zero subtlety and hardly any credibility. He usually emphasizes characters' behavior but this "story" operates at the lowest level of "porn logic" plus contrived, sloppy plot twists.
It's structured as a Vivid vehicle for superstar Dasha, with a terrific female supporting cast, so why such poor direction and one fake scene after another.
PT wrote the screenplay, and it's awful. It presents a slice of life with ugly settings, yet Dasha still looks way too beautiful/glamorous -I don't think Charlize Theron would have won an Oscar for "Monster" or been even slightly believable if she had her Perfume commercial goddess look.
So we see Dasha as a lowly hair stylist, berated by her mean boss Herschel Savage when he's not sexually harassing (into forced sex with him) receptionist Brittney Skye. Herschel's a fine actor, but PT's script makes him a Snidely Whiplash villain.
At home she's stuck with an even less credible character -selfish boyfriend Dillon Day who lives off the money she's making (now zero since she had to quit her job rather than have forced sex with the boss). He's a junkie and a thief to boot.
Melodrama escalates, with the "good guy" character played by Mike Horner being a pervert who photographs people he picks up off the street to have sex for his camea or with him. He seeemiingly has Dasha perverted into his level of voyeurism and her behavior makes no sense whatsoever. We get to stare at great talent including Lezley Zen, Stormy Daniels (very early in her career and looking terrific), Cherokee and Sunrise Adams have sex -reallly all that the movie cares about, not the dumb scene set-ups. Finale is rushed, and utterly ridiculous.
It's structured as a Vivid vehicle for superstar Dasha, with a terrific female supporting cast, so why such poor direction and one fake scene after another.
PT wrote the screenplay, and it's awful. It presents a slice of life with ugly settings, yet Dasha still looks way too beautiful/glamorous -I don't think Charlize Theron would have won an Oscar for "Monster" or been even slightly believable if she had her Perfume commercial goddess look.
So we see Dasha as a lowly hair stylist, berated by her mean boss Herschel Savage when he's not sexually harassing (into forced sex with him) receptionist Brittney Skye. Herschel's a fine actor, but PT's script makes him a Snidely Whiplash villain.
At home she's stuck with an even less credible character -selfish boyfriend Dillon Day who lives off the money she's making (now zero since she had to quit her job rather than have forced sex with the boss). He's a junkie and a thief to boot.
Melodrama escalates, with the "good guy" character played by Mike Horner being a pervert who photographs people he picks up off the street to have sex for his camea or with him. He seeemiingly has Dasha perverted into his level of voyeurism and her behavior makes no sense whatsoever. We get to stare at great talent including Lezley Zen, Stormy Daniels (very early in her career and looking terrific), Cherokee and Sunrise Adams have sex -reallly all that the movie cares about, not the dumb scene set-ups. Finale is rushed, and utterly ridiculous.
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