Documentaries about the porn industry are always inherently entertaining to hetero men on some level as it covers ladies who get naked. Sex sells. The issue with "inside" looks is everything can be boiled down into a few sentences or cliches if you will. A hit 'n miss double edged sword that 'After Porn Ends' can't escape.
Typically you'll get a particular viewpoint (good, bad) shoved down your throat or they take the neutral route and let the stories highs and lows sell themselves. That's what's going on here and with countless "talking heads" docs. Sometimes the interviews, clips run with a well put together, edited stream of thought and other times it feels random, forced or disingenuous.
Time spent with both sexes in different roles from on-screen talent, producers to directors never gains a solid narrative foothold. Even at it's strongest everything you hear isn't always interesting or can be taken at face value. If you're been down this road before some of the material is bound to be old news too.
Take pieces of good - real happiness, inner peace, success - and counterbalance that with the bad. Abuse, heartbreak, sadness, regret. Perhaps the highest regard you can give docs like this is their ability to shatter the illusion and separate fantasy from reality. Acknowledge these people as real human beings and 'After Porn Ends' certainly does that.
Typically you'll get a particular viewpoint (good, bad) shoved down your throat or they take the neutral route and let the stories highs and lows sell themselves. That's what's going on here and with countless "talking heads" docs. Sometimes the interviews, clips run with a well put together, edited stream of thought and other times it feels random, forced or disingenuous.
Time spent with both sexes in different roles from on-screen talent, producers to directors never gains a solid narrative foothold. Even at it's strongest everything you hear isn't always interesting or can be taken at face value. If you're been down this road before some of the material is bound to be old news too.
Take pieces of good - real happiness, inner peace, success - and counterbalance that with the bad. Abuse, heartbreak, sadness, regret. Perhaps the highest regard you can give docs like this is their ability to shatter the illusion and separate fantasy from reality. Acknowledge these people as real human beings and 'After Porn Ends' certainly does that.