Confessions of a Porn Addict (2008)Director: Duncan Christie
Starring: Spencer Rice, Lindsey Connell
Mark (Spencer Rice) is a self-admitted porn addict who has lost his wife, his job and his money due to his crippling addiction. When he is arrested for masturbating at a video store, he recruits a friend to document his journey to redemption with the help of a 12-step program in order to possibly sway the judge in his favor. When he discovers a secret about his ex-wife, he embarks on a journey to find her and bring her back to Canada and the documentary becomes something completely different.
I wouldn't have given Confessions of a Porn Addict a glance if I hadn't read some overwhelmingly positive reviews about it. Plus, it kept popping up on my pesky Netflix recommendations page. This really makes me question how I rated some films, because I found this film to be completely ridiculous, boring and irredeemable. Films that are shot as "fake documentaries" have a pretty thin line to toe to begin with because they can end up being shallow and pointless. From beginning to end, Confessions of a Porn Addict was both of those and so much more.
There have been several times in my life when people told me that they didn't care about any of the characters in the film, and therefore that was a driving reason why they disliked the film itself. Some have been ridiculous, (a friend's girlfriend saying this about Citizen Kane, my own boyfriend insisting this is true about Magnolia, an argument we have revisited every couple of months for the past six years) to somewhat plausible (2001: A Space Odyssey - I can kind of see that one) but, perhaps because of my love for stories and my own failed experiments in screenplay writing, I could never jump on board that none of a film's characters had any spark of interest for me. Until this film. I realize that everyone was supposed to be quirky and depraved, but the problem lied in the fact that there was supposed to be kind of a sweet love story in there somewhere, and even if it had been there, I wouldn't have cared because I was so apathetic to these characters that I couldn't even muster up the energy to hate them.
There is nothing clever about Confessions of a Porn Addict. It's not fresh, it's not "quirky", it's just plain bad.
1.5 out of 5 stars
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