Read astroknight's review first for the details
Andrew Blake's "Close-ups" is by far my favorite adult
movie I've watched all year
In recent months I've been finding gonzo porn boring
to the point of tears. There's just nothing new under the sky, no
ounce of originality. When I do watch gonzo I often find myself
fast-forwarding through most of it- skipping to the anal, skipping to
the anal doggy, the anal reverse cowgirl... to the pop-shot.... I'm
constantly searching for anything even remotely different, to no avail.
It's counter-intuitive that I would find respite from
this jaded existence of loophole porn and masturbation in something so
softcore. For someone who's always skipping to the anal parts of a
movie, I was surprised I could like something that's almost entirely
devoid of anal action. There's some brief anal masturbation
with the fingers- light, gentle, and sensual... and that's the only anal
I can recall.
I think the reason I like this movie so much is
because it harkens back to the days when I used to use my imagination
to get off. The days, *er* nights when I would lay in the dark and
stroke it to no aids but the nasty fantasies I would conjure up in the
nether regions of my mind's eye. To me, porn has had a way of
replacing fantasy and imagination by being a "as direct as possible"
visual aid to "use" in getting off. There's just no subtlety
there. This movie in turn, leaves a lot up to the imagination,
only providing you with the raw beauty of the girls, allowing your mind
to roam free with more *ahem* graphic and perverse details. In
this way, the wanking experience is more psychological. That
originality I've been searching for endlessly is to be found instead
in my own mind.
But I don't think this means I hold any special
affinity with softcore movies in general. This movie is way more
superior to other softcore movies on the market such as Celeste's work
over at Digital Playground. Whereas Celeste can waste a good
amount of shots shooting elbows and knees, with Blake there isn't a
moment that goes by where your screen isn't filled with something
entirely sexy and breathtakingly beautiful.
I don't confess to being much of an expert on Blake's
work, but it seems the close-up shots are used much more prolifically
here, which does give credence to the movie's title.
- Blake uses lots of close-ups on the pussy,
with the girls often pulling their pussy lips open with their slender
and nimble hands, the cunt flaps spreading like the soft rose-petal
wings of a butterfly.
- For the smoking fetishists, there's a lengthy
scene with cigarette smoke escaping a girl's wet, ruby lips in
puffs of wispy tendrils. The gray, cinder air is sensually blown
onto the pussy of a girlfriend.
- There's also lots of spanking in this show,
the open palm being applied to both bums and boobs, the
motion slowed down to show the supple mounds of flesh jiggling about.
- For those who enjoy the soft, warm fleece of a
thick patch of pussy hair, Ginger Jolie is quite hairy, and the
camera is not shy to capture this- her brunette down entwined in the
fingertips and pulled around and ruffled.
- Also, sculpted bodies are often glistening in
water or oil, sometimes even having the sheen of sweat, providing
a visual delight of the highest order.
- However, there isn't very much pussy-eating or
kissing in this movie for those looking for that.
All the girls here are top-notch in looks, [Lorraine (aka
Tall Goddess), Ginger Jolie, Charlie Laine, Jacqueline, Nicole Loren,
Paola Rey], my least favorite being Charlie Laine due to her innocent
baby-face, which seems slightly out of place in the movie.
The sets are very elegant as are the outfits-
aristocratic, with french roccoco furniture and decor and the like.
Very rich.
In short, I highly recommend this movie, especially
for jaded porn hounds in the same plight as me.
