Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life (2005)
Starring Kelly Lynch (The doctor from Roadhouse)
I love when these movies address an issue. Justin is a swimming star at high school. It’s a shame he loves internet porn. He stays up all night watching it. To make sure he doesn’t fall asleep, his desk draw is filled with energy drinks. Things are going well until one day his mom catches him. Then she gets freaked out while dad’s like “What do you expect? He’s a teenage boy.”
Things go from “Who fucking cares?” to “Now there’s a problem!” when his younger brother starts burning CDs of all the porn and giving them out to his friends. His performance as a top swimmer goes to shit. His smoking hot girlfriend won’t fuck him because of her Christian beliefs. To top it all off, he never jerks off once in the movie. Now that’s bizarre!
After that, the internet at home gets cut off. He gets caught looking at porn at school. He uses his mom’s credit card to buy porn, but gets busted. He runs out of places to go to feed his addiction. He can’t use his girlfriend’s PDA (lol) or his friend’s PC. They are done with him and his addiction.
Early on, someone gives him a link to one of the senior’s webpage where she does cam shows. He obsesses over her page. She meets him at a party and wants the peen. When he finally gets his chance, he bails. What he didn’t count on was her being a psycho. She bangs her head against her own table to bust herself open. She then leads his friends to believe that he was responsible. The movie begins and ends with him jumping in the HS pool (must have the key) to drown himself.
This movie is wacky for sure. In 2009 there are You Tube sites for porn. He’d never have to pay a dime. In 2005 he’s stuck looking at welcome screens for his fix. He goes to a party where his HS age friends are drinking beer and looking at porn. The Dad of one of those friends is there, blissfully unaware of all the beer bottles and porn.
What I find the most shocking is that the kid doesn’t masturbate ever. He drinks energy drinks to stay up all hours of the night to watch porn, just to watch it. It’s like he doesn’t know that the whole point is to watch it until you have to beat off. At 16, that’s something he should have picked up on.
The mom acts like this is a cocaine addiction. She gets all freaked out that her son is straight, curious, and doing something about it. While porn is illegal for a 16 year old, it’s understood that a lot of boys will actively seek and get their hands on it. The worst thing a lot of them do will be to either jerk off or have unprotected sex.
In essence, this movie is the story of a young man discovering he’s a voyeur. He’d rather watch then participate. There is a scene where he tries to get it on with insanely attractive GF (Lyndsy Fonseca at age 18) but I don’t buy it. The fact that he’s trying to induce insomnia to watch porn is strong proof of his commitment to his fetish. He didn’t start stealing or sneaking around until his mom cut off his free supply. That suggests his need is pathological. I wish this movie explored that a little bit more. Instead it clumsily lead this character to awkwardly deny the fulfillment of his fantasy of losing his virginity, getting beat up in an alley, and then drowning himself. We don’t see him go to support groups, or work some program like in other addiction movies. He just kind of ends up in that pool after getting his ass kicked.
It’s worth a watch to yell at the TV for all the things the main character does that don’t make sense.
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