“Another Body” is a documentary journey into a filthy and disgusting pool of sickening misogynist sewage.
Taylor, a university student, (not her name and not her body in front of the doc camera) lives a quiet life in suburban United States until a friend messages her that she has seen Taylor on Pornhub a pornographic website. Indeed it is her face on a body that is not hers performing sexual acts she did not perform. Her name, address, school and other personal information is revealed. She is a victim as so many other women are of a deep fake.
She is devastated tumbling into big time anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Not assisted in any meaningful way by law enforcement and with the help of a friend from undergraduate school also victimized in the same manner she manages to piece together who it may be most likely a former boyfriend at her college. Despite the perpetrator using an untraceable VPN address there is a commonality of student victims leading to her fingering “Mike” a disturbed fellow engineering student. My personal experience with engineering students is that they are largely misogynist and proud of it. I dropped my daughter at university a few years ago. The poor girl was only somewhat terrified of this “leaving home” experience. It didn’t help that engineering students were verbally harassing women moving into residence. These purple faced louts (and proud of their loutish selves) exacerbated the situation by saying, “We got you now little girls. Your Mommy and Daddy won’t be here to protect you know.” Perverts in training.
These deep fakers target women 90% of the time in a pornographic fashion. There is precious little legislation assisting the thousands of American women victimized by deep fakes. One American deep fake website averages 14 million views a month. Researchers have predicted by 2024 there will be 5.2 million deep fakes 90% of which target women not surprising with over 9,500 deep fake websites. Easy to learn how to deep fake and it is no longer a hobby but a lucrative business. Easy to hire a deep faker expert to craft a video denigrating your enemy.
Lesson? Target deep fake websites and porn sites that use them or simply wait and treat all internet porn as fabricated and move on? Unfortunately, is there mass intellectual ability to ignore and laugh at deep fakes? I don’t think so.
One lawyer featured said he gives seminars to judges most of which have no idea of deep fake porn. Sad and disturbing. Unless legislative change is in the offing what more can be done except ignore just about everything online. Online equals risk and corruption?
Directed by Sophie Compton and Rueben Hamylin. Theatrical release in Canada is on 10November2023.
RKS 2023 Film Rating 90/100.
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