After Porn Ends

The positives of this documentary are that you get a wide spectrum of perspectives. There are positive stories of people who got out and went on to do something else they love and aren’t haunted or shamed by their past. And there are negative stories of those who can’t escape the shadow of being an adult actor. Unfortunately, all the stories share one thing: a lack of interest. This is a dry series of misty talking head shots. People explain how they got in and why they got out, and there’s no emotion, no revelation, no building towards some grand statement. If you read the title and thought “some of them regret it, some of them don’t, and some of them live with it and don’t say one way or another”, congratulations, you got the effect of watching this. You know what these people did and maybe why they did it, but you don’t know anything ABOUT them. Like pornography, the fantasy of the idea is a lot better than the reality of it.