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FilmFridays: Heffalumps and Linda Lovelace
We’re mostly grown-ups here, so though the Heffalump entices, we’re going to go with a provactive new docative from the guys who made Party Monster, and attempted to lift up dear Macauley in the process. Inside Deep Throat promises to do for 1970s porncapades what Morgan Spurlock did for McDonalds – reveal the obvious, and make big waves. Still, when the big waves involve highbrow analyses of Ms. Linda Lovelace’s particular powers (by the likes of Erica Jong, Dennis Hopper and Jon Waters), how could it but make for an interesting movie? Ebert spices up his review with some cute little factlets about the U.S. Presidential Porn commissions, saying that while most people remember that the Reagan presidential commissions deemed porn harmful, that was only done in response to a 1970 panel that found porn was not linked to any particularly anti-social behaviour.
Will it all add up to a film that’s worth your hard-earned coinage? Reviews are mixed, but TOist procured a line from NOW Cameron Bailey’s interview with the filmmaker that about sums up the appeal to us: “In Inside Deep Throat,” he concludes, “all the people who are crusading for moral values are assholes, villains and crooks.” How true it rings.