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Pleasure (2021)

Drama | 109 minutes
3,08 264 votes

Genre: Drama / Erotic

Duration: 109 minuten

Country: Sweden / Netherlands / France

Directed by: Ninja Thyberg

Stars: Sofia Kappel, Zelda Morrison and Evelyn Claire

IMDb score: 6,3 (25.896)

Releasedate: 8 October 2021

Pleasure plot

Nineteen-year-old Linnéa exchanges village life in Sweden for city life in Los Angeles with the aim of making it in the porn world under her pseudonym Bella Cherry. The road to her dream is more bumpy than expected. In the end, she is forced to choose between her friends and following the rules imposed on her by men.

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Fisico

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Glad to have picked this one up. I was somewhat reserved in advance, but I still think that Thyberg has made an interesting film documentary about a loaded subject. A difficult subject even if you intend to make something serious out of it. Anyone who thinks they will end up from one cunt to the other is out of luck, it is best to use other channels. Not that it is a prude, a horse sausage passes here and there, but the action is often suggestive.

It is especially interesting to put yourself in the shoes of Bella Cherry. Thyberg does not fully succeed in conveying the girl's motives why she insists on becoming a porn actress, and then a Spiegler A-Class. Still, there's plenty of focus on the person behind Bella and her drive to make it.

What is emphasized is the hard and long road of sacrifices (and self-abasement?) to reach the top. All in all, the world is small and the competition is tough. Sawing and complaining is out of the question, although explicit reference is always made to the absolute voluntariness and the right to stop at any time when things go too far. Friendships and careers often don't go together, in any industry, and that was predictable.

Also successful was the soundtrack that alternately mixed rap with Gregorian chants. Bizarre, but well done with the underlying feeling of "What the hell am I doing or is this what we should consider normal?" The drama level came out quite well. The sudden ending, on the other hand, left me hungry. No way that Linnea has had enough. Nice of Thyberg to find the balance between showing close-ups without exploiting. Nice 3.5*!

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El ralpho

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What's your pleasure?

Coming of age in combination with an insight into the porn industry. Something you don't see every day and which makes Pleasure unique from the start within the genre. The abrupt end detracts from the whole because a final conclusion seems to be missing and I therefore got the feeling that they could have gotten much more out of this.

I thought it was very successful in conveying the sometimes hard and empty existence in the porn world, without immediately condemning the industry in its entirety. Besides paying attention to the negative aspects, it is also a world of glitz and glamor that porn actors and actresses choose very consciously. In addition to the fact that there are undoubtedly also many people who choose the world purely because they are simply a great lover of sex.

In addition, they could easily have created the stigma that everyone in the porn industry would have mental problems, but fortunately the director never takes this pedantic direction. Nevertheless, I was curious about more background story about Linnéa before she arrived in LA, and whether the boredom in Sweden was the only reason for her decision to become a famous porn actress.

Apart from the criticism I mentioned, I found Pleasure to be original, and smoothly told. The film never gets bored for a moment. It is precisely because of this that it is such a shame that the ending is so sudden and unsatisfactory, otherwise my final assessment could have been much higher.

3.0*

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