Hardcore

Panties suddenly appear on Niki's fully nude body in the peep booth.

This goof is seen on old video and cable un-matted versions.

(On DVD, the portion showing that Nikki has panties is properly cropped out and doesn't show.

) When Jake has returned to L.

and fires his detective, he creates a list of establishments to do his own research and that evening and drives around visiting places on his list.

The first place he visits has a street number of 739 (visible in frame) but in looking at address detail in the long shot of the list itself, there are no references to a street number of 739 anywhere.

'Hardcore' is rarely straightforward about its protagonists, Martha and Nadia. They are two young hookers and they like what they do - to an extent.

Jake Van Dorn (George C. Scott) is a furniture manufacturer and a leader in a religiously conservative community.

Some rather shallow psycho-analyzing. But in a non-patriarchal society, girls suffer : so much that they seek out a pseudo-patriarchy that abuses them.

Hardcore was the first to touch in this matter, after that came "8mm" "Boogie Nights" and "Lovelace", conceived as simple documentary, all change after they got George C. Scott to leading role, when I watched it in 1999 I had to confess that stayed shocked in the scene of the killing on snuff short reel picture, Scott disguise as producer to enter in this underground world of porno industry, he offers 50.

This is no Sunday afternoon fireside film but surely riveting and relentless as we follow the religious man from Grand Rapids and his Calvinist background in search of his daughter in the red light districts of Los Angeles, Santiago and San Fransisco. Not a pretty site but as the seediest stuff is shot outside and inside actual, sex shops and cinemas we are constantly having to adjust to the fact this is fiction and not documentary.

If you thought "Taxi Driver" was hard to watch due to its mercilessly dark portrayal of the seedy underbelly of New York City, wait till you see Schrader's return to familiar locations in 1979's "Hardcore", an unrelentingly horrific and intense portrait of a conservative Midwest businessman's search for his daughter, who left on a seemingly safe Christian trip only to become involved in some of the worst imaginable areas of pornography.One thing that is remarkable about "Hardcore" whether you like the film or not is its realism, at least up to the final twenty or so minutes, when a more outlandish plot point is introduced to (successfully) heighten the drama as the film nears its conclusion.

I remember seeing the trailer of this movie as a teenager and wanting to watch it for the sex/drug/violence scenes. After 12 years I remember that this movie existed by chance and decided to watch it.

This movie shows how insulated people are within their own world views. It also shows how people devalue the world views of others.

Jake Van Dorn is a businessman from the American heartland who shares strong Calvinist convictions with most of his countrymen.His teenage daughter is missing from the trip to L.