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...surgical suite that normally serves cardiac patients. At 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Bobbi was partly anesthetized; 18 minutes later, the boy nicknamed Hercules (he'd been supporting the weight of all his siblings in the womb) was lifted out. "There was a lot of pressure," says anesthesiologist Dr. Dirk Brom, "but it all went like clockwork." Bobbi was quiet, Brom recalls, but "there were tears in her eyes as her babies were being born." Before she left the operating room, Bobbi was reportedly given a tubal ligation...
...colder, nastier edge, and the consequences finally came home to roost. Boogie Nights sends its characters into a spiral of degeneration. As each character faces the ramifications of their depraved life, the porn industry turns to kink and violence in order to keep up with the changing times. Dirk, drugged out and desperate, turns gay tricks in a parking lot to earn money for dope...
After the dramatic decline of Dirk and his friends, one expects the movie to conclude. After all, you are supposed to reap what you sow. It is here that Boogie Nights delivers its most surprising, and most deeply, American turn. Anderson's menagerie of sleazy characters find redemption in family. Albeit, the family is "non-traditional," but Jack Horner, director of exotic cinema, presides over his brood of porn stars and crew with the patriarchal dedication of Ward Cleaver. By the close of the movie, all the chicks have come back to the nest. In the closing sequence, we watch...
...Anderson had ironic intent when he chose to find an American story in the sex industry is a matter for artistic interpretation. Regardless, as one watches the ideals of our nation so seamlessly grafted on to the foundation of hard-core porn, the patriotic heart must swell. Dirk Diggler reminds us that the American dream is no longer about hard work aided by a bit of good fortune. It's about rising on the wings of mediocrity and claims of entitlement. It's about gratifying those in the position to facilitate your climb, a widespread sort of prostitution euphemistically described...
...margins. I claim no basis on which to judge the rectitude of anyone else's character, let alone the morality of the nation. Who can tell where our contemporary state will ultimately lead us? It's just that by the end of Boogie Nights, you come to realize that Dirk, his pals and all that they represent have won the heart of our culture. When I think of future generations growing up in this country, I can't help but believe that they've been screwed...