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Rated X: A Journey Through Porn (1999) [Re-UP]

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Date: 17 Dec 2015 12:20:00
Rated X: A Journey Through Porn (1999) [Re-UP]

Rated X: A Journey Through Porn (1999)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:33:19 | 4,23 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: None
Genre: Documentary

Director: Dag Yngvesson
Stars: Jeanna Fine, William Margold, Gina Everett

Director Dag Yngvesson begins making a documentary about the porn industry, until he is asked by a desperate director to shoot film for his next adult movie. After agreeing, he is led deeper and deeper into the world of porn, speaking frankly with many of the industries most famous icons (Jeanna Fine, Bill Margold) and a 19-year-old newcomer named Selena who discusses her career choice on film with her mother. Viewers are invited into many areas of the industry previously not discussed including the private lives of its stars and the inner workings of the industry, in particular how directors go about casting their stars.

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This feature length documentary follows filmmaker Dag Yngvesson as he traces the routes into and out of the porn business, looking at work in teh sex trad as it begins to adapt to its new found legality and acceptability. Through talking to people at every level in the creation of pronography (from a 19-year-old former waitress who had joined 3 days before to some of the founding fathers dating to the late 60s), we gain an insight on where this slow to change industry is really headed, and how it plans to deal with the looming specters of HIV, racism, and deep-rooted misogyny.

Rated X: A Journey Through Porn (1999) [Re-UP]

Rated X: A Journey Through Porn is first time film maker Dag Yngvesson's entry in the cycle, more or less a personal journey and investigation of the adult industry. Yngvesson's film comes across as slightly different from the average documentary about the adult industry in that the film takes an almost Michael Moore approach to the material, devoting equal screen time to Yngvesson's own adventures along the course of making his documentary as it does to providing the standard documentary scenes and interviews.

Rated X: A Journey Through Porn (1999) [Re-UP]

Yngvesson starts the film by explaining his own experience watching pornography. After deciding to make a documentary about the adult business, Yngvesson contacts one of the people he remembered from watching adult films: the one and only Bill Margold, a former porn actor who is now one of the industry's foremost historians and advocates. Margold winds up hooking Yngvesson up with various people actually working in the industry and starting him on the path to document various aspects of the adult industry.

Rated X: A Journey Through Porn (1999) [Re-UP]

During the course of Rated X, the viewer is introduced to various, sometimes recognizable, characters. We meet Jim South, who heads one of the most important modeling agencies from which the adult industry draws its talent. South explains the criteria he looks for, his approach to attracting new talent, and we see him in action auditioning potential models. As more or less the antithesis to South's professional demeanor and matter-of-fact approach, we are introduced to one Regan Senter. Senter runs a smaller modeling agency in which his standard procedure involves videotaping his models and eventually having sex with them on camera. Senter comes across as a complete sleaze-bag, admitting to the camera that he got into this line of work primarily to get laid.

Rated X: A Journey Through Porn (1999) [Re-UP]

Eventually Yngvesson comes in contact with adult film director Geoff Coldwater, a porn director with aspirations to bridge into mainstream film making. Coldwater is in the process of making an adult film and eventually recruits Yngvesson to act as the camera man on the production. Initially reluctant, Yngvesson finally agrees with the hopes that he will gain a true understanding of the way the business operates.

Rated X: A Journey Through Porn (1999) [Re-UP]

Through much of the film, we hear a personalized narration by Yngvesson describing his interactions with the people he comes across. Female adult director Toni English (discussing the male-centric nature of the business), African-American performer Sean Michaels (discussing how minorities are treated in the industry) and actress Jeanna Fine (talking about how the industry has affected her life as a wife and mother) among others are all featured in the film. Rated X does discuss various issues in the adult industry, from those above to how one goes about getting in the business to how the industry has been affected by AIDS.

Rated X: A Journey Through Porn (1999) [Re-UP]

Rated X is filmed quite well using cinema verite technique, with the camera frequenting locations that average viewer wouldn't normally see. Yngvesson seems to have been granted pretty exclusive access to some areas, with the locations seen in the film representing every aspect of the adult industry, from the gateways into the business to the sets and shoots themselves to the distribution houses. The film is crisply edited and while not especially flashy, Rated X is never boring. Yngvesson's approach to the material seems to be handled in a matter-of-fact way which is refreshing when compared to the outrageous and sensational manner in which most similarly themed documentaries are handled.

Rated X: A Journey Through Porn (1999) [Re-UP]

Yngvesson's camera captures the action here with an unflinching eye. Whereas many documentaries about the porn industry tend to shy away from featuring explicit sexual content, Yngvesson just films anything he comes across, including the documentation of several adult film shoots, without pointing the camera elsewhere. Thus, this film may be one of the more explicit documentaries about the porn business out there, with full nudity and a couple instances of penetrative sex.

Rated X: A Journey Through Porn (1999) [Re-UP]

Rated X is a film that would have limited value for audiences looking for a documentary about the adult industry. While the film is well produced and includes some interesting material, much of the discussion in the film now seems dated. Additionally, the issues discussed in the film are not really expanded on; they merely get brief segments of screen time and are pushed aside. It seems like director Dag Yngvesson wasn't really sure how to handle making this film; he seems to be caught between producing a legit documentary and making a personalized account of his experiences in the adult business. Ultimately, Rated X succeeds more as the latter, but I would only give it a moderate recommendation. The film is quite level-headed but ultimately contains nothing new.
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Rated X: A Journey Through Porn (1999) [Re-UP]

Special Features:
- Stills gallery
- 2 Deleted scenes
- Interview with Jenna Jameson
- Interview with Ron Jeremy
- Interview with Nina Hartley
- Time Lapse Sex Scene
- Filmmaker biography

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