Truly Dreadful Film

Sadly Over-hyped

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

great story great acting, and one of the best study of psychopathic mind I have ever seen. Everyone who lives in LA, London or NYC (world's 3 capitals of psychopathology) would profit from watching this. Most importantly I have never seen a better attempt in any genre to really understand homosexuality. What does it really mean? what does it feel like? After talking to many of my gay friends in LA, I found out that some kind of childhood same-sex sexual abuse (by a neighbor, priest, relative etc...)is often involved. This movie gives a good analysis of all that and makes us ask questions and think deeper. One of the best movies I have ever seen, it has everything, even balls. And music is great too.

After Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights", the porn industry has been explored in a few interesting ways. Last year's "Wonderland" showed the downfall of porn legend John Holmes, a study of how desperate he became after realizing he hasn't been seen for anything but his "manhood". I recently saw "The Fluffer" which is detached to its subject, and simply shows how the characters are affected by their work."The Fluffer" is a film that unflinchingly shows the work of a small gay porn studio. I questioned its taste in some points, but I did in "Boogie Nights" also. I liked how it realistically shows how sex outweighing love leads to insanity in some form or another, but it is extremely hard to watch in spots.Wash Westmoreland's story follows a pure young man named Sean who lets himself be degraded and used in his work as a cameraman in the studio. He falls for the studio's biggest star, Johnny Rebel. Rebel is straight, or so they say, but Sean can't help but love him. I found this point interesting, how Rebel (and I'm sure many straight porno stars) reduces himself to the homosexual market for more money. Anyway, Sean lets himself be dehumanized by Rebel and soon the industry sends all their lives in the wrong direction.As a whole, "The Fluffer" doesn't fully succeed. Its messages are all told in familiar ways, (note the use of American flags to show the faded American dream for example) and the ending isn't fully convincing. However, it is a film that never stops entertaining and is definitely one of the very bravest depictions of the porn industry I've ever seen. (2 and 1/2 out of 4)

the film"the fluffer" is really a nice film about the reality of gay porn industry.the main theme of this film is really exceptional and terrific to me. the main three characters of this movie is really wonderful, especially jony rebel and sean.as a gay, i really identified with those characters.i think people who think differenly should see this movie.

Well, now I know what "fluffer" means. Never knew that. This is a sort of story about a sort of young gay guy who sort of has a crush on a sort of porn star hunk who says he sort of does the gay porn stuff to make money for his sort of girl friend. And there you have it. Michael Cunio plays the gay kid who stalks the gay porn hunk until he's offered the job as fluffer for the star to help him get it up for the sex scenes. The porn star is played by one of the best looking guys around by the name of Scott Gurney. He's gorgeous. Unfortunately you never get to see too much of that breathtaking bod of his. This is what turns me off to this picture. It's a big tease that never delivers the goods. Too bad.