Portland Adult Entertainment: Portland’s ‘Playground’
by kingofportlandPortland’s ‘Playground’
March 19, 2010, 10:13AM
Oregonians have become almost blasé, or maybe it’s just mock-blasé, about the use of their state as a scenic backdrop for movies. (Mock, we say, because many actually do enjoy auditioning to be extras.)
Most famously, perhaps, Timberline Lodge doubled as a creepy hotel in “The Shining.” But now comes a documentary, “Playground,” based in Portland, that will make you wish you were just screaming at a plain, old flamboyantly campy horror movie.
“Playground,” airing at 7 tonight at the Hollywood Theatre, spotlights the dark edge of Portland, where children have no one to hold onto, turn to pimps for protection and are swept down, down, down into a descending spiral of drug-fueled prostitution.
Anyone who still wants to believe that prostitution is a victimless crime owes it to himself or herself to test such platitudes against this film.