Chong is the porn star who
pioneered the really big gang-bang - in her case, screwing 251 men in one
day. Though the record has since been broken, there's certainly scope for a
documentary looking at the mind-set of someone who'd want to do
something like that: unfortunately, this film leaves out so much that it
can only go down as a conscious deception by the film-maker. You really
need to see the interviews Chong did to promote it, to discover important points - apparently
"forgotten" by Lewis - such as the fact he and she were in a relationship,
which broke up during the course of shooting. Indeed, the sequence of Chong
engaging in self-mutilation (which comes out of almost nowhere) was the day
they split, and according to her, Lewis was similarly cutting himself.
There is just so much left unexplored and unanswered: Chong mentions
"coming off drugs" - we hear no more of this. Her mother supposedly doesn't
know about her daughter's career - how did the documentary crew explain
their presence? Of course, trying to find the "truth" in the porn industry
is always going to be a tough job, but this is why we watch documentaries,
and Lewis doesn't really seem to be all that interested in it. I have no
complaints about film-makers whose stance colours their work; it's when
they are less than honest about it that I have major qualms.
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