SummaryPornhub, the internet's most famous adult entertainment platform, fundamentally changed how pornography is made and distributed. This enabled erotic content creators to reach a massive audience while the company made billions of dollars - but it also became embroiled in allegations including non-consensual material and trafficking on the...
SummaryPornhub, the internet's most famous adult entertainment platform, fundamentally changed how pornography is made and distributed. This enabled erotic content creators to reach a massive audience while the company made billions of dollars - but it also became embroiled in allegations including non-consensual material and trafficking on the...
If big-tech hubris is now a non-fiction Dewey classification all of its own, this was nonetheless an extremely well told tale of arrogance, carelessness and the destruction – not disruption, please – that follows in its wake.
It’s titillation with a side of radicalization. And if any teenagers whose folks have installed parental controls on their computers do watch this documentary late at night with the volume turned down, they’ll learn more about workers seizing the means of production than they learn about sex — which is far more dangerous to the powers that be than any bare breasts or asses.
O documentário lança luz sobre a indústria pornográfica na era digital, e casa perfeitamente com outros documentários sobre o tema (como por exemplo o ótimo "dilema das redes").
Embora não tenha um formato inovador, e careça de cenas mais picantes (não espere ver algo realmente pornográfico aqui), poderia sim ter arriscado um pouco mais, o máximo que veremos vai ser uma carícia nos seios (cobertos) ou um beijo ****, por exemplo. Mesmo a moça avaliando os pênis de seus seguidores, a câmera faz questão de tornar menos nítida o objeto, o que soa meio contraditório para o próprio argumento do documentário. Será que há alguma política da Netflix sobre censura?
E outra coisa que me incomodou é que os alvos são bem específicos, desde movimentos conservadores até as próprias grandes empresas, mas não houve um equilíbrio para compreender o outro lado. Não que eu, como uma pessoa liberal, quisesse isso, mas por se tratar de um documentário com um tema tabu, poderia sim equilibrar um pouco mais as falas.
De resto, ao focar nos trabalhadores e agora geradores de conteúdo, o filme acerta o público-alvo, de repente para quem pensa ingressar nessa ramo o filme pode trazer certa luz de entendimento.
Talvez pudesse ser menos didático em algumas coisas ou menos repetitivo, mas ainda assim prendeu a atenção. É de fato instigante perceber que as grandes empresas e corporações financeiras jogam a todo tempo com imagens e limites aceitáveis, demonstrando claramente que esperam sim o lucro, mas sentindo o peso moral de tudo isso. Ao ser aprovada a lei que torna mais rígida a publicação de conteúdo, vemos a força coercitiva do estado mas também o poder de marketing de uma empresa, que prefere envolver-se com o aceitável. Assim, a cultura do cancelamento tem muito que explorar aqui, mas também o tem a cultura da pedofilia e da exploração sexual.
É um tema gostoso de assistir, e sua curta duração facilita, especialmente levando em consideração que o documentário não tira de foco o vies dos trabalhadores. Achei que ficou faltando mais representatividade ****, mas tudo bem.
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story is a porn-positive documentary, and its ambition to discuss all ugly shades of the issues boldly makes it fascinating and anti-provocative.
“Money Shot,” with a no-fuss journalistic evenhandedness, makes the case that the reaction against the site, though most of it came from an unassailable moral place, may have been out of balance — that it wound up hurting sex workers without actually doing anything tangible to help the victims of trafficking.
Here is a documentary that casts a clear eye on the offenses of an industry driven by capitalism while never losing sight of the workers whose safety and success should be that profession’s number one priority.
Refusing to provide an accurate and trustworthy snapshot of what both these opposing factions are really about, the film comes across as a superficial exposé afraid of getting dirty.
For me it never gets to grips with the real issue for Pornhub, OnlyFans or indeed Facebook: are these sites publishers or platforms? If they derive profit from the content they host, then should they be responsible for it, or not?
Lots of good information in the first half, but turns into a very bad opinion piece on free speech in the second. Putting ads on child abuse and nonconsensual videos is horrific, yet the featured performers defending "free speech" seemed confused why Visa/MasterCard would want nothing to do with it. The views expressed weren't even consistent throughout the film. Early on they explained why they wanted exclusively verified uploads to protect against these crimes, but then later criticized the move when talking about lost earnings with reduced web traffic. It was also very odd when the documentary shifted tone and attacked the site's critics calling them anti feminist, ****, etc as if we didn't just learn that the company was profiting from illegal images of children. Overall disappointing finish for a documentary that started strong.