Private Thoughts

The British couples label JoyBear has a very interesting title PRIVATE THOUGHTS hidden away in its catalog, well worth checking out.

I blame it on the craze for streaming, but porn has recently devolved into a highly regimented format. Made 10 years ago, THOUGHTS avoids this pitfall and I was quite surprised to see how smoothly and satisfyingly a different approach could work.

What company director J.R. Dos Santos delivers is a modern "kitchen sink" erotic drama, not the angry Young Men of the '50s, but rather 3 slices of life about 3 interesting contemporary London women. The actresses are not identified with the roles, as JoyBear didn't iike to display credits on screen.

Becky is a young woman who reminds me of later "Orphan Black" TV star Tatiana Maslany. She and her big-dicked man have a sex scene and their kitchen actually figures prominently in this vignette.

Second girl Jess plays her bed scene with t-shirt on and never removed, adding a suspense wrinkle to the segment.

Franki is the only recognizable star, glamorous playing a businesswoman named Sarah, serviced at home by guest star from America, Christian X. After his money shot, the surprise is that we return to Jess's story, and what unfolds is a resolution or contrasting segment completing each of the protagonists' 3 stories.

Jess has a torrid, anonymous encounter with a garage man, which, save for one brief editing error where we see her breasts, keeps her top covered up once again.

Becky is in her dressing room waiting to go on stage when we have an abstracted scene of her making love to a guy with a strange snake tattoo curling over his body, with a very interesting and intense color scheme to the setting.

Finale has Franki resolving her story with a lesbian encounter with a girl friend, coolly staged as if a riposte (same setting) as her previous Christian escapade, and both women clad in striking high heels.

The six segments starring 3 protagonists has a sense of resolution, closure and even where appropriate open-endedness lacking in the now de rigeur vignettes (usually 4 per video) structure the Adult industry has adopted. I much preferred this British experiment and recommend it to folks interested in such meta-film matters.