'Boogie Nights' Film Analysis

Paul Thomas Anderson’s second film, "Boogie Nights," chose to center on a business similar to others, yet few filmmakers had really ever focused on it: the pornography business in the San Fernando Valley. It is filled with characters of every kind one could think of, and yet they are all broken, trying to fill voids in their lives. The film serves as a look at how broken people can come together in the unlikeliest of places, to form a bond that they have been longing for. Eddie Adams is without a loving mother, “Roller Girl” is without a mother presumably at all, Amber is without a son who she desperately wants to see or even speak to, and the director of the films, Jack Horner, is without any mention of a family at all. It is in these voids that these characters will bond to fill those voids and become everything they have wanted to have everything they’ve missed and to be what they’ve always wanted to be. They are all one big family with each character filling a role they have been without.