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plot summary: "The Fluffer" is the story of a wannabe filmmaker who describes himself as bi but falls in lust with a gay porn star after a mix-up at the video store leaves him with "Citizen Cum", not "Citizen Kane". The wannabe then gets into the porn industry as a videographer/fluffer. For the uninitiated, a fluffer gets the star close to climax for the money shot. So then the bi dude decides that he's probably gay (duh!) and falls for the gay-for-pay porn star. The sub-plot deals with the porn star's girlfriend and then the murder of a porn executive. I guess this movie would be classified as a coming-of-age story (all puns intended)...
review: First off, let me say that this movie sucks. It begins with this hugely pretentious quote from Ovid's The Metamorphoses about Narcissus. There is nothing mythic about this film. The script has no direction and the direction has no style. The acting is unbelievably flat (with the exception of the stripper/girlfriend character, who unfortunately is reduced to a stripper/girlfriend character). The moments for true comedy --- parodies of the porn industry --- are brief and uninspired. I got a few laughs from porn titles like "Tranny Get Your Gun" and "Chicken Hawks' Feeding Frenzy". The only other funny joke was quickly run into the ground --- the porn producers kept saying that they were making these movies for "farmers in the midwest."
The scene that was supposed to be the emotional crux of the film when the lead is forced to fluff an actor to whom he is not attracted is not believable and holds no emotional resonance. Each scene like this made me want the sex scenes to be hot. Needless to say, they weren't. The scenes were essentially the porn star standing there and the fluffer sinking out of the shot. When the two share their inevitible kiss, it once again has no weight and they don't even swap spit, for the love of pete. I think the thing that really pissed me off about this movie was that it had such potential but was so poorly realized (and scripted). (jeremy.02.02)
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