In fact, the majority of performers in the film-including Revika Reustle in her Indie Spirit-nominated role as Bella’s roommate/BFF Joy-come from the adult industry. The film lives in a liminal space between fiction and documentary, following Bella as she shoots scenes for different porn sites and bonds with the other women living in her “model house.” Bella is a made-up character, but the companies and the people she works with are real. “Pleasure” is Kappel’s first movie role, adding an additional layer of realism to a narrative about reckless innocence and cynical determination. And when it comes time for the main event, Thyberg either cuts away or films from Bella’s visceral, sometimes violent first-person point of view. There’s far more male nudity than female, all of it shockingly casual. STD tests, W-9s, photo IDs, hand sanitizer, douches, on-set safety protocols, and pre-shoot interviews-all the things that make porn a real job-are depicted in clinical detail in “Pleasure,” artistic descendants of the basket of sauce packets on top of a brothel fridge in Lizzie Borden’s “Working Girls.” Like Borden, Thyberg is interested in exploring the construction of turn-ons, not actually turning the audience on: The most explicit moments in this film don’t involve specific sex acts, but the unglamorous realities of preparation and cleanup. But Bella Cherry is not as streetwise as she thinks she is. She’s also hyper-aware of her personal brand, pausing to take selfies before wiping her face after her first blowjob scene. Bella/Linnéa wants to be a porn star, and she delights in the transgressive nature and vulgar aesthetics of her chosen profession. She’s a 19-year-old Swedish woman who arrives in America at the beginning of the film with a modest Instagram following, 25 tattoos, and the nom de porn Bella Cherry. Doctor Strange 2 Online Subtitratīy contrast, our protagonist Linnéa (Sofia Kappel) is the opposite of a power broker. And although “Pleasure” merely circles the more monied enclaves of this multi-billion-dollar industry, its power is palpable. Porn is the reason why VHS and Blu-ray triumphed over Beta Video and HD DVD, a largely unacknowledged but hugely influential force that shapes technology and culture in general. “Pleasure” was shot in the fall of 2018, and the film’s road to theaters has been a long one-so much so that OnlyFans, which reached a valuation of $1 billion in 2021, doesn’t factor into the story. And desire was never so constructed as in Swedish filmmaker Ninja Thyberg’s debut feature “Pleasure,” a studied look at an industry where extreme is the norm. Is it possible to make an unbiased movie about porn? Adult films themselves are ciphers, revealing not only the secret fantasies and unconscious biases of the people who make them, but their assumptions about the audience and what it wants to see.

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