Pamela: Historia miłosna

I never had a poster of Pamela hanging on my wall. I always thought of her as a barbarian - artificially pretty and with a brain also made of silicon (she confirmed this in the documentary: "Thinking is overrated.") So I wasn't wrong. Except that Pamela won me over a bit with this performance because, besides her fake breasts and unprecedented naivety, she has other character traits. They certainly include indomitability and straightforwardness, and certainly honesty. And whatever it is, the story of her stolen sex video was horrifying and I hope it wouldn't happen today under similar circumstances and with the consequences it had then. Because, yes, she was exposing herself, but that was her own decision. No one has the right to expose her without her consent, and no one has the right to claim that the theft couldn’t have harmed her, if she voluntarily displayed herself on the pages of Playboy. No one should be allowed to laugh publicly at the victim of a crime, as many journalists and presenters did at the time. They made her the brunt of jokes, which made her upset and truly ashamed. This crazy experience and the following witch-hunt could have driven her to suicide, but Pamela - albeit with difficulty - endured it. It's actually very powerful. ___ The documentary itself is simple - a talking Pamela, (almost) without makeup, and a lot of archive footage. (15.05.2023)