{"id":9518,"date":"2025-01-14T23:43:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T05:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=9518"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:23:28","slug":"cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=9518","title":{"rendered":"Cam"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It’s been so long since I last heard my podcast that I no longer remember exactly what the category was that led them to choose Cam<\/a>. At a guess, modern and doppelganger? But I’m not sure that’s right. (It would really help if I could remember other movies they discussed watching instead, but, here we are. Or I could write most of this review, then listen to the beginning of the podcast episode about this movie to get the answer, but I have another review yet to write, so that seems like a bad idea. So I’ll just shrug and move on.)<\/p>\n

So there’s this camgirl, Lola. (Or Alice.) She’s trying to move upward in the ranking on her site, which I think<\/em> is determined by donations rather than views? Though it’s hard to tell since they correlate. Anyway, her character thumbnail sketch is “cambitious[1], not out to her mom, out to her kid brother, has a devoted following and a few industry friends”. What sets her apart from anyone else is she knows enough about practical effects to do pretty extreme shows that go in directions you would maybe not expect of a porn biography but maybe would<\/em> expect of a horror flick.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that would be the whole movie, except one day she wakes up to find herself on cam, by which I mean the stream is running and she’s onscreen, but she’s also in bed watching it, because whoever is on the stream isn’t actually her. And then the rest of the movie is a genre I like very much, wherein it’s impossible to prove to anyone that you’re really you<\/em>, because if the system is rigged, the system always wins. Even the people who know you, they’re not inclined to doubt the evidence of their eyes, especially if you’ve been keeping secrets.<\/p>\n

Naturally, therefore, I loved the rest of the movie[2]. …right up until the end, where it kind of just sputtered out. Alas.<\/p>\n

[1] This is a word I made up, not a term of art. But I can believe it could be, you know?
\n[2] Except for the scene with the whale, which was more than a bit disturbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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