a different way of looking at it 9 Songs was done with a real film budget by a real film director. And in that sense, many of the criticisms written here are valid. But it wasn't presented to me that way. The DVD was given to me by a girl friend as "some of the best porn" she'd ever seen. I find it an extremely interesting film in this sense. Eventually porn will fully cross into art and find legitimacy. Sex is just too important to society for this not to happen eventually, as we shed the last of our Victorian scales and really grow in the freedom provided us by the sexual revolution of the last century. 9 Songs does a good job of taking a step in this direction. The actors really have sex. So does that make it porn? Is porn less than art by definition? The answers are subjective of course. But suffice it to say that this film will always be inspiring for lovers to watch together, even if they're not interested in Antarctica.