I thought of starting by saying that I do watch porn and I don't feel any kind of shame for that, but I changed my mind. I'm going to go like this, porn is not the enemy of art, creation and substance. Porn is a highly natural thing that has to do with the most basic instincts of pleasure of the human being. The fact that porn movies tend to be shitty is because no talented director would ever dare to shoot porn because he thinks that it will ruin his career. I know a lot of successful and celebrated movies which are far worse than a good porn movie. Attacking porn and the porn industry in the way that Boogie Nights does is an act of pretentious cowardice. The movie is trying to convince us that all people who deal with porn are to say the least the most problematic and idiotic stuck-ups that you can imagine. Well apparently Anderson has never boogied with some tasty porn movie in his life and that causes him problems.
Boogie Nights is an insulting movie to the people who work in porn and insulting to the people who watch porn. That superiority that the movie offers is by far one of the most irritating things for me that I have seen in a movie. Anderson couldn't attack a more substantial enemy and find a more thought-provoking theme to satirize and he turned his poison towards porn. Sexual arousal is not a sin. It's a natural desire. So why all that noisy fuss about the porn industry. Yes porn films are very rarely good movies, but that's a failure that falls in all of us. It's our shame and guilt about the things we like that makes us manufacture bad porn. But no, this movie is not interested in starting an interesting conversation with the audience by putting some daring questions on the table, is simply interested in ridiculing those people and the thing that they do. Well my answer is that I watch gladly a mediocre porn movie instead of Boogie Nights.
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