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Though overwrought, an effective Lower Depths melodrama
I avoid Joanna Angel's innumerable videos emanating from her own banner Burning Angel, because I abhor the facetious, intentionally amateurish comic-book approach she usually takes (some call it Camp, definitely Low Camp). But this assignment for producer Bree Mills' Pure Taboo series strikes a more serious tone and offers some rewards.
Chief drawback is Angel's stress on overacting, with lead players like Small Hands and Kenzie Reeves encouraged to go over the top at will. (Contrast this with India Summer's usual top-notch thesping, underplaying in her role as Small Hands' mom.)
Hands and Kenzie play step-siblings, living hand to mouth with their parents and facing a bleak future. Incest is the key theme, and the lengthy saga would have benefitted from depicting actual incest (e.g., with the blood-related parents India and as Kenzie's dad Tommy Pistol) but that's a no-no in 21st Century porn.
Angel's most audacious decision is to cast herself as a way-overage student, and a virgin no less (alt. title for the show could have been The 37-Year-Old Virgin). This leads to a risible scene in which she is studying astronomy with co-ed Abella Danger, leading of course to lesbian sex, but the miscasting is tough to swallow.
Also a problem is Angel's neverending quest to feature tattoos by the bushel-load, with her sex scene opposite Small Hands about as distracting a display of ink as one could imagine. Apparently Joanna's character was sublimating her desires, heading for the tattoo parlor whenever she felt horny rather than seeking a sexual partner.
Pistol is the worst actor in the bunch, bringing zilch (as usual) to his role as a bad dad intent on pimping out his daughter. I liked Kenzie in the lead, though at first she seemed merely to be a Piper Perri understudy pinch-hitting for the inimitable jail-bait princess PP.
Bree Mills has a strong cameo as a college professor leading a philosophy class, and Angel's script is fraught with bargain-basement existentialism, ending with a Sartre quote her character lays on the rest of the cast: "Man is condemned to be free and once thrown out in the world he's responsible for everything he does". As we used to say in the '60s: Heavy, man.
Chief drawback is Angel's stress on overacting, with lead players like Small Hands and Kenzie Reeves encouraged to go over the top at will. (Contrast this with India Summer's usual top-notch thesping, underplaying in her role as Small Hands' mom.)
Hands and Kenzie play step-siblings, living hand to mouth with their parents and facing a bleak future. Incest is the key theme, and the lengthy saga would have benefitted from depicting actual incest (e.g., with the blood-related parents India and as Kenzie's dad Tommy Pistol) but that's a no-no in 21st Century porn.
Angel's most audacious decision is to cast herself as a way-overage student, and a virgin no less (alt. title for the show could have been The 37-Year-Old Virgin). This leads to a risible scene in which she is studying astronomy with co-ed Abella Danger, leading of course to lesbian sex, but the miscasting is tough to swallow.
Also a problem is Angel's neverending quest to feature tattoos by the bushel-load, with her sex scene opposite Small Hands about as distracting a display of ink as one could imagine. Apparently Joanna's character was sublimating her desires, heading for the tattoo parlor whenever she felt horny rather than seeking a sexual partner.
Pistol is the worst actor in the bunch, bringing zilch (as usual) to his role as a bad dad intent on pimping out his daughter. I liked Kenzie in the lead, though at first she seemed merely to be a Piper Perri understudy pinch-hitting for the inimitable jail-bait princess PP.
Bree Mills has a strong cameo as a college professor leading a philosophy class, and Angel's script is fraught with bargain-basement existentialism, ending with a Sartre quote her character lays on the rest of the cast: "Man is condemned to be free and once thrown out in the world he's responsible for everything he does". As we used to say in the '60s: Heavy, man.
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- lor_
- Sep 17, 2018
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