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I went with 5 starts because it's the most neutral option. Half the people who watch this film will absolutely love it while the other half will write it off a joke.

Ceara Lynch, the real life humiliatrix, this film is clearly something she was passionate about bringing to life. The ins-and-outs of an online dominatrix alone sounds like a great concept for a documentary film. But for Lynch, the film clearly is going a step beyond. I think it's fair to say that a lot of the elements from this film (with some obvious exceptions) are based in reality. What we see on screen covering the behind the scenes might not be completely true, it could very well be how she sees her life. We do get a glimpse of some very real moments from her, which provide some interesting perspective. For those documentary bingers, this is where the enjoyment of the film likely ends.

After around 20-30 minutes into the movie, you start to realize that this isn't really a documentary (if it wasn't clear already). I'll avoid spoiling anything, but the movie goes from being a documentary about Lynch to a thriller where she's at the center and Julian Shaw (the interviewer/co-star) realizes things aren't as they seem. In a way, it's the Blair Witch Project, but with camgirls.

The film is ambitious, with the vast majority of people involved clearly trying to do something different by combining the two genres. In the end, fans each genre will probably end up disappointed. The documentary fans only get a glimpse of what goes on in the online fetish world, while the thriller fans are left underwhelmed with the plot that unfolded. I don't know how much either fan will enjoy the other half, but I think many can respect what the filmmakers are trying to do. In the end, I would've personally preferred watching two separate films: one about Lynch's online persona, one thriller revolving around an online dominatrix. Ultimately, it would be better if one genre was done really well rather than two genres done okay.

This film start with a filmmaker "Julian" having a video call with his ex-girlfriend "Rose", and flashback 71 days earlier, Julian filming a girl "Ceara" who provide adult content scene! As turnout, this film is about Rose want to ruin Julian life by hire Ceara to humiliate him! Entire film full of boring overuse of the archive footage scene! The film also not intense at all! Barely watchable scene is the naked scene in the film! Pathetic! At the end, Julian found out he setup by Rose! Julian stop filming and back to Ceara house! Still have one post credit scene! Julian saying "Adios" to the camera! That's it! Another super bored film! Don't watch it! Unless you have nothing to do!

This film is trying to be catfish meets vanilla sky. It makes light of severe traumas and works with basic, and cheap psychology to exploit its viewers. You can tell this film is made by narcissists who want to find a way to be famous- there's no art to this, no integrity. The beginning is a little interesting I'll give that some credit because it presents itself as educational- we do start to see *some* truth of Ceara's work and backstory, but the later half is an absolute disaster. No one can act especially NOT the filmmaker. BDSM is about consent- that's the bottom line, before it becomes about power. I knew this was a cheap ploy when he didn't blur out the slave's face, because it's such an invasion of privacy, and the whole plot line is someone's desperate and self centered bid for attention which means violation of privacy and inserting oneself where he doesn't belong. Ceara should not be acting as therapist and trying to help people when she herself seems unstable and invasive. Please anyone who watches this don't think this is any representation of BDSM.

Picture me, an engineer working on a project that tracks all the work of femdom content creators, looking at the list I arrive at an row named "Ceara Lynch" and after a few days, I start the scrapper for her name. It returns a website for this movie project among other things, and I think to myself: "That's a first, gotta check it out" and oh boy, was I in for a ride. This movie has no plot, no soul, nothing. It's just a white dude with a camera banging chicks. It tries really hard to give Ceara credibility as soon as it starts, but the viewer has no idea who she is, and the depiction of her is nothing short of "annoyed teenager" + "really important and smart person". I guess the director realized it wouldn't make for a movie so he decided to slap a kidnap history to make it seem "difficult" and "fancy". Initially when Ceara mentioned that she didn't think she was controlling anything, as the guys told her everything she needed to do, I thought to myself "great, let's expose the patriarchy, the financial exploitation of vulnerable people with psychological issue" but no, it would require professionalism, so they cut to the director banging her. Don't waste your time, if you want to watch trash watch "Everybody dies", at least it doesn't pretend to be teaching you anything.

Review

This film follows a man who repeatedly crosses the line of film and journalistic ethics because he goes on a 'white man knows best' crusade that misrepresents bdsm, kink, and financial domination.

Julian decides to film a documentary on an American 'humilatrix' Caera and ends up filming them having sex.

He then decides that he has the right to question her ethics, violating her and her client's privacy before seeing Caera 'kidnapped'. He for some reason cops a ransom of $45k by Carra's kidnappers.

To make the money to 'rescue' her, he sells off her sex tape for 'her own good'. Not only is this a crime, but he tells her that he was doing this to protect her because he apparently knows what is best for her.

In the end, it's been a long con to teach him a lesson about his incessant filming and documenting his life.

This need to record everything despite his subjects not giving him consent leads him to exploit the people around him, lying about if he is filming or not, and several other incredibly murky filmmaking practices that aren't resolved or explained later to help the audience understand the serious lines crossed by Shaw's character.

This bizarre film is a mess from start to finish about a man who inserts himself into a woman's life and decides he knows best. He is a sexist pig who has no limits, and what is more concerning there seems to be no breakdown by (director) Shaw detailing the serious rules his character violated throughout the course of the film.

Honestly, this quite a dangerous film that misrepresents the sex industry, journalistic integrity, respect for women, and privacy (unless it is that of the man who decides he is the white protagonist of course).

I find this disappointing as someone who has been a sex worker, a woman, and as someone in the media. It's illustrative of the inherent misogyny white men still believe they have over women who are making their own decisions about their own bodies.

Gross.

Oh and the twist of the film? Predictable and was obvious a bloody mile off. Don't bother unless you want to just feel furious at a man repeatedly violating everyone around him in serious and harmful ways because he throws a mantrum about a private issue that had nothing to do with him in the first place.