[Demonique]

I have to say I liked Hostel. Yes there was porn but I feel it was there for a reason. The sex and prostitutes acted as foreshadowing for the end of the movie. One character Josh? is complaining outside the whorehouse that it is a little sick to be able to pay to go into a room and do anything you want to someone. Which is eventually what someone does to him. The characters are lured to the hostel by promises that the girls there will let them have all the sex they want. Mr. Creepy on the train says that when you go there you can pay to do anything. He is speaking of his reason for the trip rather than theirs but they are excited and only realize this later. The porn goes a bit far perhaps but I think it is designed to show that the main characters wanted to do as the 'bad guys' did just not in such an extreme way. It makes the main characters a little less sympathetic and suggests in the back of your mind that some of what they got was little different that what they wanted to do to the women. It's only my opinion but I think it is important to the storyline.