Behind the scenes porn: family secrets In my memory, pseudodocumentary has not yet covered the topic of the porn industry, and there are not so many films on this topic. Immediately recall “Boogie Nights” by Paul Thomas Anderson, a much more interesting and worthy picture compared to “Sex dealers”. But Jonathan Liebert decided to make his own version of the story about what the life of actors of a specific genre really is.
In the story, a young documentary filmmaker (an obvious amateur and in himself quite an annoying personality) leads reports from the shooting of porn and interviews the participants of the “dirty action” for their work. Watching his journalistic efforts is ridiculous, but the process of involvement in the scenes behind the scenes seems to some extent fascinating. However, this was not enough for the director, and after about the middle of the session we witness the main intrigue, the essence of which is the establishment of long-forgotten family ties. The intrigue retains attention, but remains completely predictable: a handful of sluggish drama and trifling tantrums is not the most winning game necessary to ensure that the story does not die in a senseless walk in a circle and devour itself.
The ending turns out to be even more predictable than everything before it – so predictable that you hardly expect such a conclusion, sincerely hoping that reality will not be turned into a sweet fairy tale. But Jonathan Liebert has his own vision of the situation, so eat and don’t grumble.
“Sex dealers” are good only as creating a sweet illusion that you have penetrated right behind the scenes of porn films and can witness not only standard interviews on the topic “How old were you in this business?”, but also an almost Indian script line suggesting a family secret, designed with scandal to be disclosed. Alas, the scandal as such did not work. Boring, sad and not exciting.
3 out of 10