"The Pornographer" tells of a socially immature and sexually naive a young male paralegal who, frustrated with his misfires with women, dabbles in pornography and goes nowhere. This film had potential. It could have crawled into the mind of a pornographer and dealt more realistically with the sleaze industry. Instead it puts moral issues on the table and doesn't deal with them; raises questions it can't answer; and ends with a trite Hollywood cliche. An unsatisfying journeyman flick, "The Pornographer" is to be commended for taking on a difficult subject and not exploiting it though overall it is a generally mediocre watch which should have been better.
Review of The Pornographer
