About Cherry (2012)

This was a very strange film I found while I was exploring YouTube.

1. About Cherry

   2012 Film
2. 4.8/10·IMDb
   

   10%·Rotten Tomatoes
   

   33%·Metacritic
   

I'll be honest and say I was intrigued when I first read the IMDb page. Described as "A drama centered on a troubled young woman who moves to San Francisco, where she gets involved in pornography and aligns herself with a cocaine-addicted lawyer." I originally thought it was going to be a realistic drama about the ups, downs, and horrors of the porn industry, but after I finished the film, was not really sure what I had just watched.

This girl Angelina, her porn name being Cherry (is that what you call it, a porn name?) obviously was desperate for money, so she decides to do porn, and I expected the movie to end in blood, sweat and tears with big bold letters reading "DON'T DO PORN!" But that's not what I got. The film took such a strange and dramatic turn near the end that I was left confused. I don't know much about the adult industry, but I have a feeling this movie doesn't depict it the way it actually is. But, to be fair, it never said it was intending to show what the industry was like, but if that's the case, I can't help but ask, what the hell was this movie about?

I'll summarise the movie for you, if you're actually planning on watching this movie, don't read this paragraph. Girl is broke so she moves to San Fransisco and works in porn, meets a rich drug addicted lawyer guy and dates him,  all the while her film directer is developing an obsession on the girl, even though the director is already in a relationship with another women. They have really uncomfortable break-up sex, then lawyer calls girl disgusting because of her career, they break up, she get's hit by a car but makes it out with a bump on her head, catches her friend wacking it to one of her videos (so cringey) and then confines in a lesbian relationship with the director, she becomes a film director herself and the cycle continues! Yes, that's it.

So, this movie was confusing from start to end. I didn't know what was going on half the time, and the other half I was watching something awkwardly sexual happen. If I wanted to find out more about what the real porn industry is like, I'll just watch a documentary. I feel like this movie glamourised it a bit, but I can't really say because I'm not sure what actually goes on behind the scenes of adult entertainment, but if it's weird, confusing and awkward, this movie has it spot on. I may watch it again to try and understand what was happening, probably with no success.


★☆☆☆☆

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