The large-scale movie Joy will be released in the United States to expose the cruelty behind the industry

A24, the production company that produced the Chinese-American feature film "The Farewell", won the US distribution rights of the new film "Pleasure" and will launch a full version and a deleted R-rated version this year. The film focuses on the adult film industry, the presentation is very explicit, and it has gained a good reputation when it was "cloud premiered" at the Sundance Film Festival.

Stills from "Joy". (Image source: Sundance Film Festival official website)

Variety reported that Joy is written and directed by Swedish director Ninja Thyberg, adapted from the short film of the same name that she previously directed, telling the heroine Bella from a small town in Sweden to Los Angeles to pursue the dream of a star, but the road to chasing the dream is much bumpier than she thought. It is reported that the short film of the same name is only 15 minutes, and it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival the following year.

The film starred Swedish actress Sofia Kappel. In addition to her, the other actors are basically real adult film industry workers.

There are explicit images in the film, but the Sundance Film Festival describes the film's use of nudity as exposing rather than titillate, a large-scale image that serves the theme and examines the exploitation and exploitation of actresses by male leaders in the industry.

Alonso Duralde, a film critic at TheWrap, commented that while the image of Joy is shocking, it doesn't really point just to the adult film industry, but to any male-dominated industry, especially Hollywood. "The film not only exposes the impact of pornography on women, but also provides a shocking examination of gender power relations in all workplaces."

Owen Gleiberman, chief film critic of Variety, commented that Joy is a "deliberately stereotyped" and "disturbingly true" examination of the current state of the adult film industry, writing: "Few films can pull the sinister, dirty, involuntary world of pornography out of the 'cupboard' like 'Joy', and director Tayberg does a brave thing, she shows the instinct of a filmmaker, telling the audience what she wants to say through her characters in the film." (End)