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Started off relatively slow to introduce the characters and develop the plot. Films about webcam girls have seemingly risen over the last couple of years, where many of them are quite the typical story and everything is predictable. PVT Chat started that way, then took a slight different turn for the better. The acting was surprisingly good and realistic. Julia Fox portrays her role as one would expect and is the highlight of the film. While lead actor Peter Vack does a very convincing job in his role as a lonely internet gambler and cam girl addict falling for Julia's character. The ending twist felt somewhat confusing at first but putting the pieces together, it was quite entertaining. How she (along with her boyfriend) conned Jack into taking his money. It made more sense considering she was aware that he had broken into her place. This is a very self aware film where there is realism. People really do develop obsessions with these cam girls and would go to great lengths into finding further information about them, which may lead into danger of sorts. What wasn't exactly clear is why did she feel the need to lie about her location. A key point in the film occurs where Peter spots Julia in convenient store. Instead of actually going up to her and physically talking to her, he follows her several blocks down the street before losing her. Had he just made contact with her, a lot of what was followed, possibly would not have happened. This is quite a graphic film which may be expected (both female and male nudity) but it doesn't exactly feel over the top and over gratuitous. In the end, this is a film which clearly isn't for the casual mainstream audience where people may feel disturbed and disgusted. However it is quite underrated considering its quite low IMDB rating (currently 5.9). Perhaps even so a hidden gem.

PVT CHAT shows a surprisingly accurate depiction of many */internet/technology addicts now days. One of the few movies I've seen dealing with these topical issues. Explores unique concepts. However still manages to be playful and funny at the same time. Although it is definitely not for everybody. Other reviews imply it to be erotica and are therefore disappointed. It is clearly not. The cinematography is excellent. It is shot through a fish eye lens to give the perspective of viewing the entire movie through a webcam. Which fits in nicely. Ironically filmed before COVID and Uncut Gems.

Im sad to see so much bad review on this movie. I think people really missed the point of the film and talk trash about it without trying to understand it. Viewing this movie only by the erotic side is wrong, this is a movie about a lonely man who search human connexion, but keep ruining is life with lie and addictions.

Saw lots of negative reviews so I had to write a positive one as the film is great. You really have to bring something to the film yourself. The plot and the ending are all very clear to me, but you have to think about what it all means. If I'm honest it's worth watching for Julia Fox alone, but the main character comes across as someone you'd meet everyday. You'll know almost straight away if this film is for you or not. I loved it. Found it extremely uncomfortable and gripping right from the word go.

Julia Fox is great and carries the film, but the plot had huge holes and alot is left unanswered. If you want to see it done right watch "Shame" with Michael Fassbender

(spoiler alert) Though the actors are fine, this is one of those movies where you keep waiting to find out why we should be interested in these characters, then the end arrives and we realize the filmmakers apparently never understood that was even a problem. Basically, we get an adult Manhattan manboy who seems to have no interests beyond internet gambling (and who, improbably, does nothing else for work/funds), yet is attractive enough that he should have no trouble with women. Instead, he obsesses exclusively over a "cam-girl" dominatrix. They become "friends," sort of, in that she allows their exchanges to be a little less controlled than those with other clients. But it still seems she's probably only stringing him along for the money, a suspicion not really allayed once she acknowledges that she actually does live nearby. (She'd claimed to be in San Francisco, even for a while after he accidentally spotted here in town.) These characters are semi-blank slates, and the few people we glimpse who are also in their lives are so dumb and/or crass it makes no sense the protagonists wouldn't be able to do better in terms of friends or lovers. Still, it makes even less sense when the two leads get a "happy ending" that leaves them together--when they've already proven neither of them can be trusted, particularly by each other. So the fadeout makes his stalking OK? Makes her deliberately ripping him off OK? Are we supposed to think "Well,, they deserve each other"? I honestly could not for the life of me figure out what the makers were thinking. Not that the film needed to be moralizing, but there needed to be SOME acknowledgement that these characters are kind of awful, shallow and aimless with a gloss of hipsterdom. The trouble is, I don't think anyone affiliated with the movie realized that. This is ultimately a movie about people who might have worked as supporting figures in a different central narrative. But they, and their story, ultimately seem trivially wrong-headed floating an entire movie. It's never a good thing when you finish a movie having less notion why it was made than you did 90 minutes earlier, beyond the fact that obviously it put actors and crew to work. But that work needs to add up to something substantial enough to justify feature length, and here it just doesn't--not even close.

Presented the movie so naturally as in real word. Those scenes are lit. Lots of love Julia fox

Male viewers will be disappointed with the prudish nature of this film, especially when it comes to female anatomy. Women? Women in general don't watch this type of erotica. Plot? What plot?. You can find better dialogues even in cheap pornographic movies. Better erotics, with a better storyline, erotics which unlike PVT CHAT are not ashamed of the lower female body parts can be found on many premium adult sites. I ask again. For what audience the movie has been created?

Or is it him up? No pun intended - actually when you read nudity, mostly and most will think of female nudity. And while there is some of that, you get way more male nudtiy. Whatever you make of that - which includes a fully erect * that is being ... well played with I guess you would say (by the man himself - whom the * belongs to). Just giving you facts - not judging and not telling you to judge or watch. It really isn't that big .. the role in the movie that is (sorry for the pun). Because the movie is about relationships - online ones. About being served... is that how I would put it? Tough to say - it is about power balance. It is about weirdness ... it is about love that you could not put a finger on. Especially the twist towards the end ... and not the main twist I reckon ... but how it is being resolved. Because the twist ... well you may see it coming (no pun intended, no innuendo in sight) or not - but I doubt you could foresee that ending ... or maybe it is me again ... who knows?