Thing also is...
One (film critic? Or just an intelligent reviewer?) Rob Gonsalves has complained in his review for this movie, which was particularly available in the now seemingly defunct efilmcritic website, among other things, that this movie ONLY showed the dark, filthy and depraved side of porn and not at all the normal or even the erotic side, and according to his views, this made the film too conservative and anti-porn IN GENERAL, but is he RIGHT or perhaps a little or even a lot off the mark here and that this movie was NOT anti-porn IN GENERAL but simply tried to explore the DARK SIDES of it, and that quite simply, it wasn't the case so much that it didn't show the positive sides of porn because it (the movie) and its creators are "conservative" and against ALL porn in general but that quite simply it didn't NEED to and that it wasn't relevant to the film's overall storyline and perhaps message it was trying to convey.
He also interestingly enough has complained that in this film, no real motive or motivation was given to the villains and that this movie should've explained or attempted to explore their psyche better as opposed to simply stating "there is no reason behind it all" - but then again, given some of the MAJOR evil that they did in this movie, including murder, violence, sexual violations perhaps as well, kidnappings etc, does it really even MATTER what motive they have had or WHY they did it BEYOND them being wrong and evil and full stop?
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Chester (223)
2 years ago
It sounds like this Rob Gonsalves character loves porn and is eager to label art that strafes near the porn world but doesn’t actively celebrate it as ‘conservative’. Fact is 8MM has a story to tell about the search for a dead girl killed in a snuff film, it’s not going to waste time glamourising porn, it’s going straight for the dark and dirty end of that universe.
His complaints about the villains are also misguided. We learn that Mr Christian commissioned the snuff film ‘because he could’ - he was extremely wealthy and powerful and wanted to flex his power levels. He can click his fingers and someone dies. The fact that he wanted this in the form of a snuff film suggests he was also deeply perverse and completely lacking in morals, perhaps corrupted by power itself (like Epstein and the visitors to his island). This is an Andrew Kevin Walker script and, as with Seven, the big bad is ‘Christian’, so there’s a little dig at corrupted organised religion in there too.
Eddie found an unsuspecting girl from his ‘talent agency’ to be snuffed ‘for the money’, so his motivation is greed. Interestingly he says the murder ‘made him sick’ but he was curious to see someone ‘get done’.
Machine practically spells it out - ‘There's no mystery. Things I do, I do them because I like them! Because I want to!’
Dino Velvet is a passionate filmmaker in the hardcore fetish arena and, like Eddie, took this job for the money.
Finally there’s Mr Longdale the attorney, who pocketed most of the million dollar ‘budget’ of the film for himself. Again, motivated by pure greed and a gaping absence of morals.
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TheMan18 (13135)
2 years ago
"It sounds like this Rob Gonsalves character loves porn"
Well, I personally can't tell for sure, he does love movies in general though, judging by how many reviews he has written in the past 18 or so years.
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