sofi ryan and kenna james in “untreatable part 2”
scene title: untreatable part 2
performers: sofi ryan, kenna james
site: digital playground (mindgeek)
production credits: françois clousot (dir.), zach (scr.)
trailer
i'm a little disappointed that this is the first digital playground scene i've been able to cover all month. it seems that starting in april, digital playground has stopped producing stand-alone scenes under the flixxx brand and are only focused on features (full-length movies with four to five scenes aimed at the dvd market) now. this is of course a reversion to the studio's original purpose long before they were bought by mindgeek, but it does mean fewer scenes, of less variety, every month. it might also mean more budget for the features so that the overall quality is better, but as a girl/girl viewer, for me it means hoping for scraps from every production instead of being sure of a few scenes a month.
the scraps in this production are sofi ryan (who i haven't seen before) and kenna james (who i know and love), playing, as far as i can tell, aspects of kendra spade's psyche. the plot doesn't make a whole lot of sense because i haven't seen the first episode (i get the impression it still might not if i had), but the generous, stylish, and production-heavy introduction to the sex seems to suggest that kendra, the star of the movie (and very good too), is either undergoing some kind of break with reality or living in a world where supernatural events are happening to her. sofi ryan appears to her first, offering her dice and telling her to look at static on a television screen; then seth gamble shows up as a psych-ward worker slash voice of temptation, and gives her a key to her room, where sofi and kenna are having sex. she can't fit the key in the lock until she puts on a red mask; and then the sex scene plays out with kendra, masked, in a corner of the room watching sofi and kenna have sex while she masturbates languorously. finally they leave, and the mask disappears as she masturbates vigorously. then the key disappears too, and she freaks out.
it's all very stylish and even suspenseful, with a thrumming soundscape and cool, bloodless camerawork moving from long shots to close-ups in ways that emphasizes the psychological uncertainty of the narrative. the sex between sofi and kenna is actually the dullest part of the scene, not because they're bad at their jobs (quite the contrary), but because françois clousot shoots it like straightforward porn (only occasionally at tilted angles) rather than letting it be cut and sound-edited to match the rest of the film. the result is that an interesting narrative screeches to a halt while we watch two pornstars have professional, athletic sex. clousot's bloodless filmmaking style makes it a bit dull, so that the attention wanders, and i notice irrelevant details, like how kenna's chin is orange after going down on sofi because the spray tan rubbed off on her.
that's the trouble with porn features, of course: if the story's interesting, porn sex, with its requisite number of positions and excruciating length, is a distraction from it, and if the story's not interesting, why should i care that they're having sex in the first place? stand-alone scenes (vignettes, in the industry's old-fashioned parlance), where the story ends when the sex does, strike me as much tidier narratively and even aesthetically. but no one will pump the kind of budget that studios like wicked or digital playground extend to features into a stand-alone scene. except, occasionally, gamma. but pure taboo doesn't do girl/girl scenes.
performances: 24
cinematography: 22
editing: 20
script: 14
sjw points: 2
total score:
performers: sofi ryan, kenna james
site: digital playground (mindgeek)
production credits: françois clousot (dir.), zach (scr.)
trailer
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| l: sofi ryan, r: kenna james |
i'm a little disappointed that this is the first digital playground scene i've been able to cover all month. it seems that starting in april, digital playground has stopped producing stand-alone scenes under the flixxx brand and are only focused on features (full-length movies with four to five scenes aimed at the dvd market) now. this is of course a reversion to the studio's original purpose long before they were bought by mindgeek, but it does mean fewer scenes, of less variety, every month. it might also mean more budget for the features so that the overall quality is better, but as a girl/girl viewer, for me it means hoping for scraps from every production instead of being sure of a few scenes a month.
the scraps in this production are sofi ryan (who i haven't seen before) and kenna james (who i know and love), playing, as far as i can tell, aspects of kendra spade's psyche. the plot doesn't make a whole lot of sense because i haven't seen the first episode (i get the impression it still might not if i had), but the generous, stylish, and production-heavy introduction to the sex seems to suggest that kendra, the star of the movie (and very good too), is either undergoing some kind of break with reality or living in a world where supernatural events are happening to her. sofi ryan appears to her first, offering her dice and telling her to look at static on a television screen; then seth gamble shows up as a psych-ward worker slash voice of temptation, and gives her a key to her room, where sofi and kenna are having sex. she can't fit the key in the lock until she puts on a red mask; and then the sex scene plays out with kendra, masked, in a corner of the room watching sofi and kenna have sex while she masturbates languorously. finally they leave, and the mask disappears as she masturbates vigorously. then the key disappears too, and she freaks out.
it's all very stylish and even suspenseful, with a thrumming soundscape and cool, bloodless camerawork moving from long shots to close-ups in ways that emphasizes the psychological uncertainty of the narrative. the sex between sofi and kenna is actually the dullest part of the scene, not because they're bad at their jobs (quite the contrary), but because françois clousot shoots it like straightforward porn (only occasionally at tilted angles) rather than letting it be cut and sound-edited to match the rest of the film. the result is that an interesting narrative screeches to a halt while we watch two pornstars have professional, athletic sex. clousot's bloodless filmmaking style makes it a bit dull, so that the attention wanders, and i notice irrelevant details, like how kenna's chin is orange after going down on sofi because the spray tan rubbed off on her.
that's the trouble with porn features, of course: if the story's interesting, porn sex, with its requisite number of positions and excruciating length, is a distraction from it, and if the story's not interesting, why should i care that they're having sex in the first place? stand-alone scenes (vignettes, in the industry's old-fashioned parlance), where the story ends when the sex does, strike me as much tidier narratively and even aesthetically. but no one will pump the kind of budget that studios like wicked or digital playground extend to features into a stand-alone scene. except, occasionally, gamma. but pure taboo doesn't do girl/girl scenes.
performances: 24
cinematography: 22
editing: 20
script: 14
sjw points: 2
total score:
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