he scenes of a group of teenage and 20-something women sharing a featureless suburban house in Florida... are authentic and effective -- banal, sad, funny and weird.
The searing documentary Hot Girls Wanted shines an uncomfortable spotlight on the internet porn industry, specifically the world of so-called "amateur" porn.
As as a "scared straight" manifesto, this new documentary may do the trick when it's rolled out as a warning in high school assemblies. As cinema for anyone who has read a newspaper, it's a considerable flub.
Their previous effort 'Sexy Baby' quite literally changed the way I saw media images of young women, and it'll be difficult to look at any of this stuff the same way either.
While Hot Girls Wanted presents a damning portrayal of an industry in crisis, the wider issues at play are more complicated and nuanced than a 90-minute documentary allows for.
Although the filmmakers strive to give a fair hearing to those within the porn world who unapologetically defend the profession, the film clearly questions just how much the barely legal participants are in control.
