I'm not a member of Insex - I learned about this documentary through Robin Bougie's livejournal (livejournal.com/bougieman). After reading that the film was being released through Synapse Films, I bought it because I really enjoy Synapse's taste and sensibility.
This film was shocking.
A few of my sexual relationships have involved light bondage - so I felt like I knew something about what was involved. Well, I didn't.
This film shows you another world.
If the goal of film is to transport you to another world, this documentary does it.
The doc makes it clear that what you're seeing is special, and that no one had put together a bondage website like InSex before...with live feeds, and metal traps and cages.
The 'bondage' sensibility that InSex shows off seems borrowed from a million places, and yet, what they show you is something that other media has only hinted at.
This documentary is a little terrifying.
Many of the women who appeared in InSex's videos and live feeds talk about their experiences. And when you hear about the money involved, the money that they made for their performances, you understand how they could agree to allow themselves to be involved with InSex's extreme bondage.
*** POSSIBLE SPOILERS *** Not to mention the fact that InSex's bondage videos had the impact that the Ramones did on tour, inspiring everyone who was even remotely involved with them to start their own bondage website.
InSex is the bondage website that changed everything for bondage. And this documentary is the story of how it happened. And while I don't know enough about bondage to verify the story, I enjoyed the story that this documentary told.
All you have to do is get past the 'do or die'* title.
* By 'do or die' I mean that while the title is provocative, when you tell people only the title, they either want to see it or not at all. Black or white. Do or die.
Of course, the same people that say no because of the title also deliberately avoid any/all horror films.
Sorry if my review is annoying.
This film was shocking.
A few of my sexual relationships have involved light bondage - so I felt like I knew something about what was involved. Well, I didn't.
This film shows you another world.
If the goal of film is to transport you to another world, this documentary does it.
The doc makes it clear that what you're seeing is special, and that no one had put together a bondage website like InSex before...with live feeds, and metal traps and cages.
The 'bondage' sensibility that InSex shows off seems borrowed from a million places, and yet, what they show you is something that other media has only hinted at.
This documentary is a little terrifying.
Many of the women who appeared in InSex's videos and live feeds talk about their experiences. And when you hear about the money involved, the money that they made for their performances, you understand how they could agree to allow themselves to be involved with InSex's extreme bondage.
*** POSSIBLE SPOILERS *** Not to mention the fact that InSex's bondage videos had the impact that the Ramones did on tour, inspiring everyone who was even remotely involved with them to start their own bondage website.
InSex is the bondage website that changed everything for bondage. And this documentary is the story of how it happened. And while I don't know enough about bondage to verify the story, I enjoyed the story that this documentary told.
All you have to do is get past the 'do or die'* title.
* By 'do or die' I mean that while the title is provocative, when you tell people only the title, they either want to see it or not at all. Black or white. Do or die.
Of course, the same people that say no because of the title also deliberately avoid any/all horror films.
Sorry if my review is annoying.