According to an Amazon.com writeup (the only writeup I could find):
“As real as fiction gets, Adventures in Pornoland is an unprecedented, insider’s take on the porn culture – on location with the cast, crew and sets of the adult filmmaking industry.
Packing up his bags, Ethan Barrett (Brad Brough, Canada’s Next Top Model, Style Her Famous, Sex TV) – who has enjoyed great success in the Canadian filmmaking industry – migrates south with his fiancée, Jaime (Taryn O’Neill, Compulsions, Puzzled) and dreams of making it big in Hollywood. Things are off to a rough start and he reluctantly accepts a job on the set of a porn flick.
But is he really in it “just for the money,” as he assures both Jaime and his best friend David Gold (Greg Salman, Sex TV), or has it aroused something more? How far is too far? Has Ethan’s dream become a nightmare for all of them?
Features appearances by Ron Jeremy – called one of the “Top 50 Porn Stars of All Time” by Adult Video News and who has also appeared in such non-porn hits as Boondock Saints – and Kimberly Kane, named a “Top 12″ female porn star by the popular men’s magazine Maxim.”
I do not recommend seeing this film. It’s not “an unprecedented, insider’s take on the porn culture – on location with the cast, crew and sets of the adult filmmaking industry.” It’s fairly routine stuff you can see in a documentary or in the behind-the-scenes footage of an adult dvd. If anything, it’s confusing.
It’s shot like a documentary, but it’s not a documentary. And it’s got a plot moment where reluctant first-time Canadian director “Ethan” gives his girlfriend chlamydia because he had sex with an adult actress, yet the camera follows him everywhere and there’s never a hint that he’s gone off with someone. That and he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who would do that. The acting is not great, either, BUT…
It is an interesting concept because what this non-porn director, who’s fascinated by porn, wants to do is basically shoot the kind of scenes shot back in the 70s, during porn’s Golden Age. Two-minute scenes showing sex, but not really showing it explicitly. There’s a line where he says basically, ‘I’m trying to cleanse the dirtiness of porn so I can cleanse myself.’ I get that. I’m fascinated by human interaction and sexuality, myself. I prefer artsy stuff and sex performers resemble any other kind of performer in their natural uninhibitedness.
While I do like the idea of capturing the innocence of someone trying to capture the innocence of sex on film, it’s confusing to see something that is shot like a documentary but obviously isn’t a documentary. Not a terrible concept as far as presenting a non-sex film about porn–and obviously more cost effective–but it veered into a few stereotypes that killed its compelling feel beyond the lead’s inner struggle, which wasn’t shot to be very compelling.
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