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I was watching the Movie The Substance and that film was basically softcore porn with an interesting message to say, who's to say Porn can't be art?

Sure professional studios don't care, They just want to show you the goods and that's it, but even with such studios they sometimes put the effort in, I remember watching a scene of Nikki Benz with Brazzers where she popped off a champaigne and you could see it in slow mo and I thought "Wait, so y'all are capable of actually having interesting shots"

Porn can be art, It's just most directors are lazy.

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[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I think I agree, but I don't think it's that directors are lazy, they just lack the correct intentions.

For something to be art, it should make the audience think about it afterwards. Does it evoke any feelings? Is the artist trying to express an idea with the piece?

Typical pornography is made to get someone off and then they never have to think about it again. It's purely transactional. "Here is something attractive to look at while you jerk off. Please give me money and you can look at more"

But it doesn't have to be that way. There is no reason why you can't have work that has more substance.(heh) If you look at Japan, between pink films and eroge, they figured this out like 40 years ago.

[–] IonTempted@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah completely agree, my dream would be to have genres as you do now (milf, pawg, petite, cheating) etc but with competent cinematography that is trying to say something. I mostly can't look at modern professional porn because I'm bored of all the still shots that were there decades before just with better color correction and 4K now I guess.