Probably everyone who has progressed from cell division as the reproductive means of choice has some interest in porn, but if yours runs a little deeper then the "Annabel Chong Story" is a very worthwhile documentary to watch, offering a truthful glimpse behind the scenes. And that's pretty much all there is to say about it.To dispel a few popular notions about this documentary, it's not exploitative other than of Grace Quek's (that's Annabel Chong's real name) exhibitionism save possibly her parents, it doesn't purport to chronicle all minutiae of human sexuality, pornography is probably not the most wholesome business to be and in and this fact can not reasonably be blamed on the documentary (don't kill the messenger), film maker Gough Lewis repudiates the fact that he and Quek were a couple at the beginning of this movie for the patent reason that he wanted to make a movie about Quek and not about their relationship, Quek is neither centerfoldish-statuesque nor is she phenomenally ugly with the "the most crooked teeth ever", if you think her views are bizarre then you have obviously enjoyed the privilege of blissful ignorance of the field of womens' / gender studies and, unsurprisingly, Grace might not be the wholesome waif that you can exchange coy glances over glasses of iced tea at the country fair with. In fact, she probably is a bit of a whore, bless her little heart.In approaching this movie please note that it is a documentary and not a sequel from Playboy's Girl Next Door video franchise, thank you.

In the same year that Steve Zahn was winning a Special Jury Prize at Sundance for Happy, Texas, this movie was competing for the Grand Jury Prize. I have to admit that I was not expecting a film that discusses triple penetration to be one on my list, but it came highly recommended by someone I trust.This film will give you some very interesting things to see, and I don't mean naked women, even though there is plenty of that. I was intrigued that the mother of this middle-class Chinese girl from Singapore was interviewed. Anyone that knows anything about society in Singapore knows this is 180 degrees from reality. In fact Annabel says: To Singapore, pornography is filth. That's okay. But it's become a national ideology that, just, you know, a value judgment, you know, to do pornography is to be against the collective agreement of what it means to be a Singaporean. F*ck 'em. They can lick my a**.I had to laugh when one porn star (MIchael Coxx) stated that her signature act gave porno a bad name, and a porn star (Ona Zee) trying to pretend that she did "high class" porn.It was a great inside look at the business that killed Beta and will kill Blu Ray.I love fried zucchini, but I will never look at a zucchini the same way again.

I got this out on DVD under the misled assumption that this was the story of a woman studying Gender Studies who, as part of her studies and for purposes of either research or a thesis, partook in a gang bang.WRONG!This was just a typical dirty slut who HAPPENED to also be studying at the same time. It was only about 10 minutes into the movie when I made the comment "Why does she speak so weird and jittery like she's drugged out?" and sure enough, she'd been a drug addict, too.I don't think she is intelligent. I think the best description of her was made by one of her schoolteachers (I think it was a teacher) "Grace reminds me of an introvert. An introvert who is trying to be extroverted." and that about defines her.One minute she's so proud in a "I don't give a f*** what anyone thinks of me" way and the next she is embarrassed, smiling falsely, crying and begging her mother for forgiveness.It reminds me of a few similar dramas I've seen about innocent young women who get into porn for money, then become drug addicts and eventually kill themselves, only the quality of this doco is incredibly poor.I would think more highly of her if I believed she was truly comfortable with the choices she has made - but I think there is constant evidence throughout this film that she is not.

'Sex' raises more questions than it answers. Particularly what exactly was director Gough Lewis trying to achieve here, what is his relationship with Annabel Chong and what does she think she is going to get out of this? The porn industry is sleazy. We know that. People are exploited. We know that too. Chong is profoundly screwed up. Not much of a surprise there. She unconvincingly uses feminist psycho-babble to justify her actions. Okay. All this documentary does is make Chong look pathetic and misguided. We never understand what REALLY motivates her to participate in such extreme behavior as "the world's biggest gang bang". There are no genuine insights about Chong, or sexuality, or human relationships, or anything else. In that sense this movie is a failure, but an interesting one. Worth a look, just don't expect much.