The dialog may be construed as vapid, but -- more than that -- it is Authentic.

The Paris Hilton Sex Tape is the quintessential American film.

It is, at heart, an exploration of the emptiness of the rich and the American desire to be your own star. 

The dialog may be construed as vapid, but -- more than that -- it is Authentic.

The Night-Vision sex scene implicates the audience in the hollowness of their search for Transcendence. 

The scene of Paris having sex but shot at a distance across an expensive hotel room shows how artful framing can apply context that the performers cannot supply alone: subconsciously, they are not strong enough to be the center of attention of their own film.

When the male lead suggests that Paris stick a magnum bottle of Cristal champagne in her vagina he is providing subtle insight on the role of endless consumption in a capitalist society: alone, they can only exploit each other.

And it concludes with a Happy Ending.

THAT is American Film.


I am Laslo.


___________ __



I know what people are saying: they are saying 'Hey Laslo, how can the Paris Hilton Sex Tape be the quintessential American film when there is no anal sex in it?"

The fact that there is no anal sex underscores the disparity of the Rich and the Other Folk. Her lover in the film is not of Paris' financial level, and in the caste system of the rich only the equally wealthy -- or the very very rough poor -- are entitled to anal sex.

Paris' withholding of anal sex is the understood silent agreement that he is a tourist in her world: the Rich make the Rules.

Along these lines, notice that in the film's Happy Ending she allows him to ejaculate on her breasts but not her face, much less in her mouth: the significance of this should be obvious.


I am Laslo.


http://althouse.blogspot.com/2015/07/bbc-culture-polled-film-critics-from.html