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This amazing story about a taboo subject begins in 1977. The dramatic set-pieces, the risque ouvre, all calvacade around one issue-pornography. This well populated world is introduced to us through the club Hot Traxx in the San Fernando Valley. Eddie Adams is the young, ideal driven, docile kid, at a waiter job at the club. Every scene is interesting because in slow canvassing camera shots each sequence is all about the subject-adult film.
Eddie Adams becomes Dirk Diggler, a porno film star, under the mentorship of Jack Horner(Burt Reynolds). Amber Waves is on the phone with someone, and she would like to talk to her son. Amber, played by Julianne Moore, is a veteran porn actress. The pornography business is like being introduced into the mob, there are rules to follow, and life exists within a self-contained group. As the event montage continues, Little Bill is meandering around his domestic and clean apartment. He discovers his wife, having sex with some male cohort. Eddie Adams, now back home, is in his room changing his clothes. There are posters on the wall. Every item is an object of awe. This is unknown territory. Where the mob family resolves conflicts into jealousy, the 'industry' leads to love. Jack Horner sees Eddie at the club and he has a special feeling, a notion about Eddie.
It is amazing that Jack Horner is a detatched, cold observer as a director, but is intense about pursuing creative ideas-new kinds of pornography movies. Eddie is awkward and has a naive, hard-nosed determination. Despite this he is mature as he is approached by Jack Horner. At Eddie's house, a low camera angle is introduced. This first shot capturing Eddie at breakfast. Eddie's mother is questioning him about his lack of priorities. Eddie has two jobs, one at a carwash, the other is at Hot Traxx. Eddie Adams is gifted, he has a large penis, and he doesn't harbor a proclivity to judge others in the pornography world. Despite the outrageousness of the new life Eddie has involved himself with, we ask how long is Eddie, now Dirk Diggler, going to ascend? Dirk Diggler is the prototype mover, so incandescent in boyish exuberance, he is the model of conflicted stardom. No one else could have been Dirk Diggler except Mark Wahlberg.
Eddie is attending parties at Jack Horner's house, and he is a good diver. The camera shot is underwater, and the piqued translucence of sunlit blue brings a consciousness of power over snags and vitality negatives. The camera rests for seconds. The scene is intimate. The whole movie is a nod to the shooting and production of adult films. Unlike lesser serial dramas, the personalities of these characters are entwined to the outcome of the play. Eddie even says that he has seen "Star Wars" four times. At first glance this analogy is ridiculous, but each close-up has a battery of implications for the plot of "Boogie Nights". Like a trance that overcomes the worshipers of the sun-god we float in delight into the next phase and look at the bodies left behind from a safe distance.
Has there ever been a film in which the cast achieved recognition to such a fine degree of innovation as in the case of "Boogie Nights"? The friends of Dirk Diggler are knotted within a conductor of soft equilibriums-through rough genuflections their nerves are never mangled. In social divisions the problem is that one does not get included into 'regular society'. Outside of this clique, there are square suburban lawns and tracts of greenery that lie distant from the charismatic beacon lighted by Dirk, and his friends Reed(John C. Reilly), and Scotty (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Then the movie celebrates other times. Now these people move into a sphere of danger, crime, and incongruity, at the mere whim of changing currents. This is explicable because these lives are so extraordinary. Thinking of Reed Rothchild, one intuitively cares what will happen to him.
There are amazing set-pieces. A very well choreographed disco dance, a Christmas song playing over the radio during a robbery, and Dirk's fiery pinkish Corvette Stingray. These seventies ironies are done right. These objects are where they would be given the setting. Continuing on the viewer witnesses what becomes of these dynamic characters as they stray from their world and their non-groomed ideals. Unlike many less accomplished slice of life drama exposes, every action, here, advances the themes of "Boogie Nights". In numerous television dramas and other movies the personality 'types' say things simply for the decor of the language-they search for trends that are temporarily nuanced by strangeness, not by meaning.
As a diletante reviewer, I am forced to question my objectivity when describing, in detail, my opinions. I have strong beliefs and the subject of "Boogie Nights" was a biasing factor. This movie has me questioning where the origin of the real sin is. "Boogie Nights" is a forking path in my way. I definitely want to be able to enjoy movies as good as this.
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