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The characters (or elements) in this sexploitation novel:
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“dual-protagonists”
The story of PERMANENT OBSCURITY is incredibly simple: two young women, early twenties, self-perceived “failures” as artists, both desperate, drug-dependent, financially strapped and delusional, attempt to “take charge” of their lives by crossing a moral line and making a kind of fetishy “dirty movie.” Both young women, although appearing “street wise” and hardboiled at first, are actually innocents caught in a web of their own making. Their relatively young age plays a part in their inability to see wider options, and they live in a world (New York City’s East Village), which is greatly insulated from the “real world” at large. As young women they believe they have wisdom and cunning, but their experience is limited and their perspective quite narrow. This plays into the rash choices they make in the course of the story. Their youth—and substance abuse—also contributes to their general paranoia and growing insecurity and fear. Much of the danger they believe they’re in is heightened by their youthful imagination or can be attributed to drug use. In many ways, despite their womanly age, both young ladies are still children: “girls,” as I see them (thus the subtitle of the novel). |
What's this fucking dirty movie?
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PERMANENT OBSCURITY: Or a Cautionary Tale Of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography, and Death : a novel by Richard Perez : is a kind of “Thelma and Louise,” sexploitation/tabloid inspired story set in the East Village, NYC, a story of two down-and-out gals, both would-be artists, who set out to make a femdom movie with disastrous results.