Rating: Summary: Superficial Review: This documentary supposedly tries to give an insight in the life of Grace Quex aka Annabelle Chong whose most famous achievement was to participate in the first biggest-ever [lovefest].I was expecting to find out what her motivations were for participating in such a degrading thing, but no answers are given. She tries to steer random pseudo-feminist explanations that are just not credible. As always, the viewer concludes that the sole reason for people wanting to go to the porn industry is that they are simply losers who don't know better. I would have been glad to find other reasons given in this documentary, but they just weren't there.
Rating: Summary: so-so, uneven documentary Review: this would've been so much better if the subject had her sh*t together. instead she comes off as a typical, messed up, unhappy, attention-hungry, self-absorbed club-kid. she's so bent on being different, going against the grain & "not conforming" that it's like she feels impelled to shock & titillate. she's into cutting herself. she chain-smokes. she spits cliches like it's going outa style. and she straight up lies when she pretends to enjoy getting banged by 251 losers. have a look at her face & tell me she's enjoying that. uh, right.
her reasons for going into porn might be questionable, but fair enough. it's her decision. but why, after coming out to her mother, and promising to restore her pride (after all, finding out your daughter is in porn has gotta be a hard pill to swallow, perhaps even more so for a traditional, conservative Singaporean family), why then does she later go back into porn? is it the easy money? what became of her gender studies at USC? the documentary glosses over this event & gives no explanation. in the end, Grace seems to take more interest in her 15 minutes of infamy & burgeoning porn career than she does in her future & ends up looking like just another washed-up L.A. porn floozy, instead of the bastion of feminist theory she fancies herself as.
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