Aroused

Aroused is a pretty interesting documentary about the motives of the most famous women in pornography.We fellow the director/photographer Deborah Anderson on a special shooting with Pornstars. The Black and White cinematography is gorgeous. There's a lot of nudity in this documentary but this is for art value. This is not gratuitous. The most interesting to listen are actually Kayden Kross, Katsuni, Francesca Le and Misty Stone. The movie is pretty short and also some of the pornstars don't speak much ( Lexi Belle, April o' Neil and Lisa Ann). We see an other angle, actually the more human angle of these women. This is not an easy job and even one of them compares this job to the job of stuntman, because they risk their lives with STD.

Pretty Good!

Count as a documentary if the film maker is answering her own questions? After the first 15 minutes I realized this was about a whole different kind of masturbation. Over stylized and way self important. Stop moving the camera, I'm getting motion sickness. Not art and not interesting. If there was a point I was missing it. Why Black and white? Is there really such a high percentage of girls with strong religious backgrounds or is that an effect of selection and editing? I flipped channels and started watching House of Lies on SHO instead. This has nothing really to do with Aroused but I needed to fill in 10 sentences and there is not enough to talk about in Aroused. Griffin Dunned is a terrible actor. House of Lies is lousy too BTW. Yawn.

While the fashion photographer who made the film works to glamorize her subjects, she doesn't mince their words in editing, and the closeups on the actresses expressions are actually devastating. I was looking for a film that would change my far too positive view of porn to be more balanced, and seeing that even the top porn stars aren't that happy about their work says a lot.

The actresses start sounding conflicted and upset as they go deeper in the questioning. They basically all qualify any positive thing they say about porn with a contradiction. They're all dealing with one harsh reality or another. Posing in front of the camera they seem really out of their element when they're not expected to sell themselves, but it's fascinating.

If you interpret what they actresses are really saying, it's sad; doubly sad that so many blindly love porn. For once the actresses are all really human though.

I have nothing against pornography or documentaries. However, a documentary about pornography needs to get past the self-serving interview that is the sole menu item offered on this smörgåsbord.

Everyone has two reasons for doing what he does; the real reason and the good reason. This film is dishonest because it presents only the good reasons, delivered up by the porn stars themselves. As a result, the documentary is not particularly penetrating. There is some reason that Shauna Grant, for example, killed herself. Many dozens of other porn stars, male and female, have done the same.

There is some value in seeing the women talking about themselves, but the prevarication is obvious and transparent -- a wee bit of the happy hooker fantasy.

At first the concept sounded interested. THEN the fact that Jon Anderson the now spiritual essence ex leader of progressive group Yes who I worship daughter was making the film. I became distraught. I hate porn with such a passion I wish I could well I'm not going to say. There's no more porn stars are you kidding. Porn is common place it's like every 10th person you see under 80 has made a porn video and it's on the internet. GIVE ME A BREAK. WAKE UP................ OK they want more review on a movie that stunk. Since when did IMDb change the rules. Why do web sites make it harder on the average user. It was fine before they make me write 10 lines of crap.