Purple Rocket sees sleazy former grownup performer Mikey, performed by Simon Rex, meet donut store employee Strawberry (Suzanna Son), and ruthlessly tries to tug her into his world of porn motion pictures.
One movie fan mentioned: “The Academy appears to have forgotten Purple Rocket, the place Baker tried to make us really feel sorry for a kid abuser. That wasn’t leisure. It was simply plain incorrect.”
And one reviewer wrote: “Baby Grooming is a becoming alternate title for Purple Rocket. I struggled mightily with Purple Rocket as I screened it and am nonetheless battling it as I sit right here scripting this.
“I couldn’t get previous the ick issue of kid grooming that’s Purple Rocket’s focus. There are some humorous moments, just like the full-frontal shot of Mikey as he walks into the lounge of his new abode, proper in entrance of his mother-in-law.
“As humorous because the film could be, although, these moments conflict catastrophically with the general tone and subject material.”
One critic mentioned Baker, who has cited Italian eroticism and sexploitation movies of the Nineteen Seventies as his inspiration for Purple Rocket, luxuriates in Mikey’s single-minded carnal obsession with Strawberry.
They added: “That’s what makes it so disgusting.”
One other film fan mentioned in regards to the flick: “The predatory nature of Mikey actually threw me for a loop. I needed to cease the screening.”