Inside Deep Throat

Without knowing it's history and even without putting it in the grander historical context, Deep Throat is one amazing movie. After all, it is a comedy, musical, porno detailing the adventures of a woman whose clitoris is in her throat. I have long been a fan.

The documentary "Inside Deep Throat" is an amazing look at how the film came to be, the impact it had on our society as it drew responses from hollywood, the feminist movement and even the country's highest office occupied at that time by Richard Millhouse Nixon before he had another Deep Throat to worry about.
Interviews from such diverse personalites as Hugh Hefner, Bill Maher, Camille Paglia, Harry Reams, Gerard Damiano (the director of Deep Throat) and Norman Mailer along with tons of old newsreel and press clipping doing a great job of letting us get a feel for what this film meant when it was unleashed in 1972 and what it's come to mean in the years since.

Inside Deep Throat also explores the stranger than fiction stories of the parties involved, before and after Deep Throat sent their lives on a roller coaster course. Linda Lovelace's story in particular will amaze. She went on to become a born again Christian and a feminist poster child, participating in anti-porn hysteria and claiming to have been hypnotized and coerced into making the film with threats of violence or even death. A decade or so later she posed for adult magazine's again, figuring she might as well be making some money off the name that would not stop following her around.

I was glad to see the filmmakers, while taking a look at the tabu's surrounding sex, did not wimp out. What I mean to say is, they didn't try to look Deep Throat without looking at Deep Throat. Yes, this documentary is rated NC17.

I give it a thumbs up (um, in this context that may sound dirty, and that's fine with me.)

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