Pleasure Buzz

Title: Fetishes
Starring:
Mistress Beatrice, Nick Broomfield himself, etc.
Director: Nick Broomfield
Producer: Fortissimo Films
Length: 87 min
Year: 1996
Country: USA
Genre/Rating: Documentary/Unrated
Reviewed copy: Special edition DVD, 2005

Plot
Nick Broomfield (Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood Madam), a BBC documentarian, and his camera man visits Mistress Raven’s fetish/bondage/S&M parlor Pandora’s Box in New York for a couple of weeks trying to find out what in their past indicated that they would eventually work in Pandora’s Box. We’ll meet the mistresses and their clients who pays huge sums to be physically and mentally humiliated, exploring their secret desires and tastes.

Light weight review
I had the opportunity to borrow this DVD from my (new found!) boyfriend. While reading what it was about I expected that it would give me some kind of answer to why people have different fetishes and when and how they got them. And, why they like what they like.

Unfortunately that’s not the case. Nick Broomfield didn’t seem to have a real goal from the beginning and he couldn’t stay objective while making it (he is both the interviewer and the sound man). Neither is there an conclusion at the end which made the whole movie sort of pointless and just pure bizarre.
I would have wanted to see more insight in which why these people want to do this and the psychology behind it.

If you only would like to see some examples of what kind of (extreme) fetishes there is out there, this is the movie for you. You will see things from sadism, masochism, public humiliation, toilet licking, to rubber wrestling, spanking and a bizzare rituals like in which Jewish clients pay to be treated like Holocaust victims.

My conclusion? I got one word: Bizarre.