'Pearl,' a prequel to 'X,' explores how that earlier film's killer crone came to embrace her psychotic destiny. Film critic Katie Rife reviews Ti West's latest — and explains what you'll need to know if you haven't seen 'X.'
Appropriately enough, the one area where "Pearl" is diligent about historical accuracy is in its pornography. Midway through the film, a handsome projectionist at the local movie theater screens a dirty picture for Pearl when she sneaks out of the house and comes to visit him late one night. That movie, "A Free Ride,"— it was made in 1915 and was licensed to the makers of "Pearl" by the prestigious Kinsey Institute.
Pearl is a married woman, but her husband is away at war, and her mother’s plain Protestant mindset leaves her with little in the way of sensual pleasures. Naturally, she’s intrigued. For a moment, it seems as if Pearl will go the way of her counterpart in "X," aspiring porn star Maxine , who also believes that fame is her destiny and pleasure is her birthright.
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