1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story

Firstly, for a man to turn up to this event, you have to wonder what went wrong in his life. Some would call him a loser. So when Bonnie Blue talks about feeling "empowered" by sleeping with these kinds of men, it feels disconnected from what we're actually witnessing.

And that's the core problem. The documentary misses the chance to go deeper. This woman thought her only options in life were recruitment or sex work. Including her parents or a psychologist could have offered real insight into the emotional or social context behind her choices. Instead, we're left with a surface-level look at a taboo subject - one that offers no real structure or takeaway.

But maybe that's the point: to provoke pity, and to make us reflect on what we'd want for our own children.

And by the way, it didn't even look like 1,000 men were there. But I guess that number makes headlines.

If you have watched the Lily Phillips documentary on YouTube and are expecting something similar, you will be sorely disappointed. Director producer Victoria Silver, who also acts as the presenter and narrator, is completely absent for the first twenty minutes. She shows up on camera a total of three times, and at numerous times her questions to Bonnie sound suspiciously dubbed in during post. I suspect that Bonnie hired her own film crew and at a much later stage this documentary was commissioned, forcing them to work backwards to make it appear authentic.

It doesn't work. Bonnie provides standard responses to all questions and there are almost never follow ups, we learn nothing about her that we don't already know, and it all comes across as fake and overly curated. Due to a lack of content, a good proportion of the documentary is also dedicated to short clips from social media, and likely fake "hate" comments, which add nothing.

Overall, nothing is gained from watching it, which is likely one of the reasons it has had so little apparent popularity across the Internet in general. It would have been much better to have a YouTuber follow Bonnie around and make an authentic documentary, like Lily's. As it is, this will likely be forgotten just as fast as Bonnie Blue herself appears to be.

Honestly, who's idea was to give her even more "air time" is just beyond me. Just show how low we have sunk as a society when nut cases like this get their own "documentary". Just 20-30 years ago this "person" would be properly labeled and sent for a "recovery" to some mental institution.

Next example of motherless and fatherless nutcase.

This would of been fun with some interviews challenging her intellect, because watching her squirm in a seat not being able to come up with a single intelligent response to world events and facts would of made for great content. Instead her character comes across as a fembot, with some real arrogance on display, as if she's the first person to make money out of shock content.

The doc feels like a cringe-worthy infomercial for self-branding so that she can keep getting headlines, and make more money. The director plays a fence-sitter, with no interesting questions or challenges.

Being neither a fan nor a foe of Bonnie Blue's, I went into this hoping to better understand why she ticks people off that much. However, Silver's flaccid approach does not even make a dent on Bonnie's practiced professional schtick. The doc is staunchly cold, oblivious, humorless, lacks insight and courage. It's neither valorizing though, sensational or incendiary; it's merely paint-by-numbers surface facts like a haughty school report. I gained more insight into Bonnie's MO by watching her rage bait YouTube interviews being hard, defensive, defiant, insolent, expressionless - however! There is a sequence of slo-mo close ups of Bonnie's face as she's having sex. She's unrecognizable in those moments, it's a different person; the softness, sweetness, kindness and peace that her face emanates; not at ALL performative or formulaic. It was shocking. Is it a clue? Is relating through the body Bonnie's only way of connecting with humans? She was a dancer after all, who knows, certainly not SIlver. Those surprising fleeting golden moments fly right over her unsuspecting head.

What is offputting here is not Bonnie taking a thousand d1cks but the director's pervasive disdain of Bonnie Blue. The final note of this glib bummer is the director's voice, wondering what she'll tell her daughter about all this; may we suggest she tells her that going forward, mommie will only be directing corporate videos.

(I wonder what a portrait of Bonnie by the Maysles brothers would be like.)