Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Hashimuri Aside from the fact that this documentary displays little technical skill, it also seems to possess no real artistic or narrative INTENT. This is supposed to be Grace Quek's chance to tell the REAL story of her alter-ego, porn starlet Annabel Chong. Naturally you expect some in-depth analysis of Quek's unconventional trajectory, with adequate psychological insight and complex discussion. However, you get none.This is an exploitative and disjointed sleazefest - but Quek herself is largely part of the problem. Instead of making sense of her dubious and scandalous career choices, she flounders, displaying faux-confidence and nonchalance at times, emotional instability and fragility at others. Quek is one of those privileged and intelligent people who orchestrate their lives in order to precisely undermine their privilege and intelligence. It is this unrepressed, egocentric, ungrateful display of self-indulgence that makes such people unable to garner sympathy or respect from anybody. Such happens here, and it is rather pointless to have the subject of a documentary be so contemptible.Quek grew up as the only child of well-meaning, middle-class parents in one of the world's wealthiest nations, where she attended some of the top schools before being granted the means to attend university in the UK. Yet amidst this oasis of privilege and opportunity, she was oh so overwhelmed by her existential lack of purpose and identity that she headed for L.A., where she nosedived into the underworld of drugs and pornography.Meanwhile, she rationalizes her choices by claiming there is some sort of higher philosophical quest embedded in what is otherwise blatantly self-destructive behavior. Although it is clear Quek has unresolved issues, and most probably longstanding clinical depression, there is a catch: she is, and always has been, in a position to DEAL and SEEK HELP. That she CHOOSES to destruct beyond repair and delude herself about her motives is the real travesty here, and not all the nonsense some people keep pointing out about the porn industry being sleazy and exploitative and devoid of morals.Most women who get into porn come from working-class, if not downright desolate backgrounds. Their childhoods and adolescenes are best quantified by LACK rather than excess. Many have a history of child abuse, sexual abuse, violence, and early drug and alcohol addiction. That Quek would choose such an exploitative industry as the medium to carry out some of sort of "intellectual exercise" to, in her words, "subvert Western ideals of masculinity" only exposes the fact that her choice had NO SUCH INTENT. Partaking in the infamous "gangbang" was merely indulgence in a high form of self-destruction - hey, with an audience to boot (Quek seems is undeniably a narcissistic sort of masochist). The fact that she doesn't care about never having been paid a cent also compounds this. Name a single porn actress who would work for free! The sad this is, her intent in making this documentary is one and the same as her intent in doing porn: more self-indulgence, more self-absorption and more self-destruction. I am only sorry that she consented to getting her parents involved in it - watching the scenes of her mom is heart-breaking. Many kids fail their parents, but for a kid to be so ungrateful as to FLAUNT their failure, is just unnecessary.

didi-5 Gough Lewis' 'documentary' of Grace Quek aka Annabel Chong's curious route into seemingly willing participant of pornographic films (the most notorious being the 251-man gang bang captured on video) is truly sickening in the level of exploitation going on - both of Chong herself and of the audience who may be drawn to Lewis' film.Chong, a self-hating 'sexology' student, argued that her pornographic rituals stemmed from a need to prove the power of the woman. Or something. Her arguments seemed seriously flawed as she veered from damaged young woman to giggling porn babe. The film is disturbing - even more so when it uses the gang-bang (which took ten hours) as a framing device for the rest of the proceedings.A very weird and unsettling eighty minutes.

CharltonBoy This film is quite disturbing because all you come away feeling is angry.Angry at the morons who exploited this woman , angry at the documentary maker ,who seemed to revel in the fact that this woman made the most appalling decisions and mostly you feel angry at Annabel Chong. This woman is the most pathetic specimen i have seen i many a long time. She has no regard for her family or her own health. After taking part in the totally unsexy gang bang she didnt care if she caught aids , she didnt care what her friend , family or college friends thought and most of all she obviously didnt care what a pathetic woman she looked like the general public by making the film. The only reason the porn industry wanted anything to do with this immature woman is because she had no scruples and would sleep with over 250 men. It certainly can't be because the woman is sexy or erotic in anyway. She is a pug like ugly woman who's teeth look like thy have been modelled on Stonehenge. All i can say is that if Annabel Chong ( or whatever your real name is) reads this please have some dignity and respect your body and family and leave the porn industry to those who are good at it and look the part. 5 out of 10.

zfyodor Half way into this movie I began asking myself why I should care about Anabel Chong. I've seen several documentaries on the Porn industry and this is certainly not one of the better ones. It reveals little about the industry itself and yet it also fails to deliver anything more than a superficial glimpse into the world of Anabel Chong. Anabel is at once proud and defiant about her gang bang and yet deeply ashamed and embarrassed - to the point where she tearfully begs her mother for forgiveness and lies to her old teachers about her profession. Yet little light is shed on this contradiction.There are several scenes which, in and of themselves, sparkle, but they are lost in a film that has little structure and constantly struggles just to have a point.