Pamela, a Love Story

This documentary turned out exactly as I predicted in the series Pam & Tommy. The show provoked the real Pam Anderson to speak out about everything. And it was clear that it wouldn't just be about the series she refused to watch. Pamela, a Love Story is a balance of the story of a dazzling star of the 90s, who, just like Kim Basinger, started out in Playboy, but unlike Kim, big films avoided her. Nevertheless, she had a significant career in television, filming practically non-stop for almost two decades. During that time, she managed to go through several marriages and double motherhood. Series like Home Improvement, Baywatch, V.I.P., Stripperella and Stacked are unthinkable without her. So why should we listen to the story that her affair with the sex tape destroyed her career? Because it didn't destroy her career, but it really destroyed her as a person from the ground up. And that's what we should be most aware of today, whether you work in any profession, no one has the right to your privacy. The 90s were insidious when it came to that. Today, the former playmate is over fifty and has once again proven that she always had it. She made it far in Dancing with the Stars and played Roxie Hart on Broadway in "Chicago," which is definitely no small feat. (04.02.2023)

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)