February 12, 2005
Inside on a Rainy Day
On the MTV website, Kurt Loder says Inside Deep Throat is "a funny and saddening new documentary."
"Deep Throat" dragged hardcore pornography out of the scum-swamps in which it had traditionally festered and pushed it into the everyday world. So successful was the movie in doing this that, today, not only is porn of every sort available instantly to all who seek it, it's also available - suddenly, startlingly, right there on a computer screen - to those who don't. In this regard, the modern porn industry is as evangelical, in its way, as the religious groups that understandably revile it.(More)
The Earthtimes reviewer left the screening with a heavy heart.
It's all told in a romping those-were-the-days style, and it could have been an entertaining film - except for a shadow so dark, it overpowers any lightness.(More)
