Posted 10:16 AM by Scoobie Davis

Yo, How About Watching The Film?
The other day, I mentioned about how envious I was to not be going to Sundance this year. One film that is being shown at Sundance is Inside Deep Throat, a documentary produced by Brian Grazer.

WorldnetDaily's Joseph Farah, who apparently hasn't seen the film, has some harsh words for it:

Yet, the new documentary conveniently overlooks the harsh victimization of Lovelace, or Linda Susan Boreman, who in 1986 testified before the Meese Commission on Pornography that she was forced to perform in the movie.

"When you see the movie 'Deep Throat,' you are watching me being raped," she said. "It is a crime that movie is still showing; there was a gun to my head the entire time."

In other words, this was a kind of "snuff film," but instead of the actor being murdered for the camera and the voyeurs who would pay to see it, Lovelace was just repeatedly raped.

Of course, that story is not addressed in "Inside Deep Throat." Instead, it is portrayed as "good, clean fun."

The only problem is that it just ain't so. Unlike Farah, I have seen the film (I went to a marketing research screening for the film a few months ago). Anyone who saw Inside Deep Throat would know that the film uses a clip of Boreman's testimony before the Meese Commission that included the quote that Farah wrote wasn't mentioned.

Also, I don't think that anyone who saw the film would come out of the theater with the notion that Deep Throat and porn are "good, clean fun." The film portrayed the basest people I could imagine who were involved with the film. The film didn't gloss over the seediness of the porn industry. There was very little that was erotic about the film. I recommend it.